installing wxPython on Linux and Windows

[rido dodol]

Install ubuntu linux....get wxpython with synaptic...is easy!!!


On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:19:12 +0100, Peter Maas <peter at somewhere.com> wrote:
> Recently I replaced Win2k with Linux on my desktop computer. Using mostly
> multi-platform software I thought this would be easy. It was not as
> easy as expected getting wxPython to work. There seemed to be no SuSE RPM
> so I installed from source. Here are my steps (gtk 2.4 was already
> installed):
> 
> - Built wxWidgets (.configure --enable-unicode)
> - Built wxPython (python setup.py install)
>    error: "you should use wx-config program for compilation"
> - Tried wx-config with various options
> - Examined (huge) error output more closely: There was a message
>    "Usage: wx-config [options]" right at the beginning
> - Debugged setup.py: message was caused by wx-config option unicode=no
> - Debugged config.py: wx-config option unicode=no was caused by UNICODE=0
> - Set UNICODE=1, next build, error: compiler couldn't find stc.h
> - Set BUILD_STC = 0 and some other BUILD_s as well
> - I worked! started demo.py, splash screen started up and - error in
>    demo's Main.py 'DemoCodeEditor' object has no attribute 'editor'
> - Ah, STC is for StyledTextControl! set BUILD_STC = 1 again but how can
>    I get styledTextControl?
> - Downloaded/built scintilla, but where's the slot for scintilla.a?
> - Realized that I had to build STC (wxWidgets' contribs) separately.
> - Built wxPython, start demo.py - it worked FINALLY!
> 
> Took me with all tries and dead ends approx. 8 hours.
> 
> Same task on Win2k: download wxPython-setup.exe, double-click, done.
> Took me approx. 1 minute. This strikes me. Why are some tasks so hard
> on Linux and so easy on Windows? After all wxPython/Win and wxPython/Lin
> are made by the same developers. My guess: the software deployment
> infrastructure on Linux needs to be improved.
> 
> Disclaimer: I don't want to blame anyone here. wxPython is a fine
> piece of software otherwise I wouldn't have tried so hard to get
> it working.
> 
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