wxGTK and unicode mode

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Japher · Post by **Japher** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:32 pm

Trying to build wxGTK with unicode support.

emerge -pv wxGTK reports
[ebuild N ] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.1 -debug -doc +gnome +gtk2 -joystick -odbc +opengl +sdl +unicode -wxgtk1 0 kB

which implies that both gtk2 and unicode will be used.

Yet, while the emerge is running I see this:

Configured wxWidgets 2.6.1 for `i686-pc-linux-gnu'

Which GUI toolkit should wxWidgets use? GTK+ 2
Should wxWidgets be compiled into single library? no
Should wxWidgets be compiled in debug mode? no
Should wxWidgets be linked as a shared library? yes
[b]Should wxWidgets be compiled in Unicode mode? no[/b] <-- note it says no unicode
What level of wxWidgets compatibility should be enabled?
wxWidgets 2.2 no
wxWidgets 2.4 yes

and of course the resulting build has no unicode.

Additionally, I have tried adding to package.use and on the command line... something, somewhere is
overriding the directives and I'm just not seeing it.

Any suggestions?

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:22 pm

doesn't 'equery uses wxGTK' show

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+ + unicode : Adds support for Unicode

Japher · Post by **Japher** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:29 pm

[quote]doesn't 'equery uses wxGTK' show [/quote]

equery doesn't exist on my current install .. any idea what ebuild contains it ?

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:36 pm

Japher wrote:
doesn't 'equery uses wxGTK' show
equery doesn't exist on my current install .. any idea what ebuild contains it ?

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# equery belongs equery
[ Searching for file(s) equery in *... ]
app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre1 (/usr/bin/equery)

Japher · Post by **Japher** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:32 pm

equery uses wxGTK
[code][ Searching for packages matching wxGTK... ]
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ]
[ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
[ Found these USE variables for x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r3 ]
U I
- - debug : Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary across packages, but generally it will at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES=nostrip too
- - wxgtk1 : <unknown>
+ + gtk2 : Use gtk+-2.0.0 over gtk+-1.2 in cases where a program supports both.
- - odbc : Adds ODBC Support (Open DataBase Connectivity)
+ + opengl : Adds support for OpenGL
- - unicode : Adds support for Unicode
[ Found these USE variables for x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.1 ]
U I
+ + gnome : Adds GNOME support
+ + gtk2 : Use gtk+-2.0.0 over gtk+-1.2 in cases where a program supports both.
- - joystick : Add support for joysticks in all packages
- - odbc : Adds ODBC Support (Open DataBase Connectivity)
+ + opengl : Adds support for OpenGL
+ + sdl : Adds support for Simple Direct Layer (media library)
- - wxgtk1 : <unknown>
- - debug : Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary across packages, but generally it will at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES=nostrip too
- - doc : Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)
- - odbc : Adds ODBC Support (Open DataBase Connectivity)
- - unicode : Adds support for Unicode
[/code]

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:08 am

and do you have unicode in your make.conf USE flags? Here are mine..

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USE="a52 aac cddb cdparanoia dvd dvdr dvdread faad javascript live lm_sensors
     mmx network nptl ppds real rtc sse sse2 theora unicode win32codecs -avi
     -fortran -gnome -gtk"

zolxd · Post by **zolxd** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:50 pm

Rats. I thought this would have some bearing on my problem.

(Oddly, USE="-unicode" emerge wxGTK appeared to leave unicode set according to equery uses wxGTK, so I ended up putting it in /etc/make.conf even though I generally want unicode support... )

MmmmJoel · Post by **MmmmJoel** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:53 pm

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112073

wxGTK-2.6.* with unicode USE do not compile as unicode

rhill · Post by **rhill** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 2:17 am

it builds two versions. one with and one without unicode. if you watch the compile, you should see it go through the configure twice.

Orific · Post by **Orific** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:43 am

dirtyepic wrote:it builds two versions. one with and one without unicode. if you watch the compile, you should see it go through the configure twice.

OK. And I was just wondering: wouldn't it be possible to make it compile once only ? It would help saving a lot of time, since this compile is really long.
Or is it absolutely necessary ? Do some applications need the no unicode version ?

squeegee · Post by **squeegee** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 3:21 pm

Since an app I wanted required 2.6* of wxGTK and I also had 2.8.7, using only a plain

x11-libs/wxGTK X unicode

line in package.use did not add unicode support to 2.6.4.

/usr/lib/wx/config contained

gtk2-ansi-release-2.6
gtk2-unicode-release-2.8

What did work was having a line for 2.6.4 and another line for 2.8.7 in package.use:

=x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.4.0-r3 X unicode
>=x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.7.1-r1 X unicode

and then

emerge -av =x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.4.0-r3

did add unicode to 2.6.4.