Re: Problems building pgAdmin with wxWidgets binaries for Windows

Hi,

my concern regarding 2.9 was that the pgAdmin code may be partly
incompatible, but from a quick look at the mailing list, it seems that
this has been addressed a long time ago, so I guess it should work.
To change the reference in VC 2010 (Express):
Properties of the "pgAdmin3" project -> Configuration properties ->
Linker -> Input -> Additional dependencies
(translated from German, so not sure about the actual wording in the
English version)

Cheers
Florian

Kari Karkkainen schrieb am 10.02.2013 08:12:
> Hi Florian,
>
> Thanks a lot for your quick and detailed response.
>
> Yes, I followed those pgAdmin building instructions from the INSTALL
> file. But I struggled (including discovering that vcbuild has been
> replaced with msbuild with incompatible switches...) with that stuff
> for a couple of days and gave up, and was hoping the wxWidgets
> binaries+headers would be the way to go. I am getting much further
> with this approach but still failing at the end.
>
> I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Professional (running on 64bit Win 7);
> not sure if that is a problem. I have noticed that at wxWiki
> (http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Guide) they
> recommend using VC++ 2008 Express edition which, as you pointed out,
> is not so easy to find anymore.
>
> But as I said, currently my build fails since 'wxbase28u.lib' is not
> there. However, 'wxbase29u.lib' is there (because I'm using the 2.9.4
> binaries, I assume), but I just don't know why the linker is looking
> for the 28 version and not the 29 version, and how to change this...
>
> KariK
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Florian Klaar <flo(dot)klaar(at)gmx(dot)de>
> *To:* Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen(at)yahoo(dot)com>
> *Cc:* "pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:40 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Problems building pgAdmin with
> wxWidgets binaries for Windows
>
> Hi Kari,
>
> I assume you followed the instructions from pgadmin.org
> <http://pgadmin.org/>?
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgadmin3.git;a=blob;f=INSTALL;h=b8ec1a51fd877efc1be701f4ed938b92daf219fc;hb=REL-1_16_0_PATCHES
> I was struggling with wxWidgets on Windows as well since the
> instructions didn't seem to work with my installation of VC++ 2010
> Express. I'm no expert on this, but my guess is that it'll still be
> easier to get wxWidgets 2.8 to work than make pgAdmin compile with
> version 2.9.
> You didn't mention which version of Visual C++ you are using, but I
> wanted to use the Express edition and ended up having to install both
> VC 2008 Express and 2010 Express to make the supplied build-wxmsw.bat
> work and at as well be able to open the pgAdmin solution file.
>
> My rather clumsy and trial-and-error-driven approach was (from memory):
> - Use VC 2008 Express to execute pgAdmin's supplied build-wxmsw.bat,
> since VC 2010 Express doesn't seem to include vcbuild.exe any more.
> However, 2008's vcbuild.exe didn't recognize wxWidget's .dsp files as
> project files (the error message was something like "make sure the
> file is from VC++4 or newer bla"), so I opened all the needed .dsp
> files one by one in VC 2008 Express using File -> Open -> Project (NOT
> File -> Open -> File!). For each project file, VC asked to upgrade it,
> which I confirmed, causing VC to kindly generate a .vcproj file for
> the respective .dsp file. This is the first part of what pgAdmin's
> build-wxmsw.bat was supposed to do.
> - Then (still in VC 2008) I executed build-wxmsw.bat again in order to
> build the binaries. Which worked, as far as I remember.
> - Since pgAdmin's solution file is for version 2010, use VC 2010
> Express to open it.
>
> I also had to change a few of the project's include paths in order for
> VC to find all the needed external libraries when compiling pgAdmin,
> but that's no biggie. I also wasn't aware at the beginning that I had
> to download the binary distributions of the libraries and not the
> source packages. But that may be due to my general lack of experience
> with these things.
> Took me an evening to work all this out, but at least I learned
> something new along the way.
>
> Oh BTW, if you need to get VC++ 2008 Express from the web, make sure
> the web installer you are using does indeed download version 2008 and
> not 2010. Microsoft seems to have replaced the old installer with the
> new one in place, so many old links found on the web that are labeled
> "2008" actually point to the 2010 installer now. This was almost
> driving me nuts :-)
>
> Hope this helps.
> Florian
>
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