Building wxMSW port with Win32 MSys2 backend

The MSys2 website is http://www.msys2.org/

These building steps are NOT the normal way to build MSys2 MinGW packages. But, they are a way the wxWidgets developers can test that wxWidgets can build the wxMSW libraries under MSys2 MinGW.

For the MSys2 way please see https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages and https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Creating-Packages/

Building steps:

A. Install the mingw32 packages needed to build wxMSW using the configure/make build method. From the MSys2 MinGW prompt:

 pacman -S --needed --noconfirm make
 pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libjpeg-turbo
 pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libpng
 pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libtiff
 pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gcc

Packages that are needed but are normally installed already.

pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gcc-libs
pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-expat
pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-xz
pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-zlib

B. Build the wxMSW static library

1. Open MSys2 MinGW Prompt (These steps were tested on MinGW64; but, should work under MinGW32)
2. Use the cd command to change directory to the wxWidgets top folder.
3. Create the "build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static" folder to build the static libraries

    mkdir -p build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static
   

4. Configure wxWidgets

   Option "--disable-precomp-headers" is NOT needed. I am doing it to check for compile issues; And, I think my old 32 bit Windows machine works best with it disabled.

   cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static && \
   ../configure --with-msw \
       --disable-shared \
       --disable-precomp-headers \
   && cd ..
   

5. make the wxMSW static libraries

    cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static && make && cd ..
   

   C. Build and run the minimal static sample

   1. Clean the minimal sample
   
           cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/minimal && make clean && cd ../../..
   
   2. Build the minimal sample
   
           cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/minimal && make && cd ../../..
   
   3. Run the minimal sample
   
           ./build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/minimal/minimal.exe
   

   D. Clean the static samples

       cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples && make clean && cd ../..
   

   E. Build and run the typetest static sample to verify MIME database works

       cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/typetest && make && cd ../../..
       ./build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/typetest/typetest.exe
   

   F. Build and run the drawing static sample

       cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/drawing && make && cd ../../..
       cd samples/drawing && ../../build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/drawing/drawing.exe && cd ../..
   

   G. Build and run the splash static sample

       cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/splash && make && cd ../../..
       cd samples/splash && ../../build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/splash/splash.exe && cd ../..
   

   H. Build and run the widgets static sample

       cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/widgets && make && cd ../../..
       cd samples/widgets && ../../build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/widgets/widgets.exe && cd ../..
   

   I. Build all the rest of the static samples

       cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples && make && cd ../..