Tools

This is a selection of tools that may be useful when programming with wxWidgets. These are fairly old; please also see the more recent support directory for tools relevant to wxWidgets 2 programming.

Editors
Name Description Platform Location Type
MicroEmacs for Windows Emacs-like, lightweight editor for Windows, with macro language. The help file is here. Windows 3.1 Freeware
Emacs for Windows NT/Windows 95 Port of Emacs to WIN32. Very large. Windows 95, Windows NT Freeware
Graphics
Name Description Platform Location Type
Paint Shop Pro 3 Excellent image conversion and manipulation program. Windows 3.1 Shareware
GhostScript PostScript clone. Various Freeware
Miscellanous utilities
Name Description Platform Location Type
Audit Counts Windows resources used (bitmaps, fonts, pens etc.) Windows 3.1 Freeware
AutoDuck Automated software documentation tool Windows 3.1 Freeware
CTL3D32.DLL Microsoft 3D-effects DLL, dated 21/07/95, file size 26,624 bytes, version 2.31.0.0. This is known to to work on Win32s, Windows 95 and Windows NT. Windows 95, Win32s, Windows NT. Freeware
ODBC 2.5 Desktop Driver Pack 3.0, which installs ODBC 2.5 onto your PC. Required when programming ODBC applications. WIN32 Freeware
GZIP GZIP, for compressing or uncompressing .gz or .tgz files. Windows 3.1 Freeware
BYACC DOS binary of YACC (Yet Another Compiler Compiler) useful for compiling PrologIO/wxExpr. Windows 3.1 Freeware
FLEX GNU DOS binary of FLEX, a lexical analyzer, useful for compiling PrologIO. Windows 3.1 Freeware
GNU SED forms. GNU SED (Stream Editor) for DOS. Windows 3.1 Freeware
dbwin.exe Windows 3.1 utility to display debugging messages, and some Windows GDI and other errors. Doesn't work for Windows 95 or Windows NT. Windows 3.1 Freeware
Patch Patch utility for DOS. DOS/Windows 3.1 Freeware
Microsoft VC++ DLLs DLLs that are required for some VC++ applications, but sometimes get left out of distributions. Windows 95/98/NT Redistributable
Ctl3d DLLs 32-bit CTL3D DLLs that must be distributed with wxWidgets 1.xx applications, for Windows 95 and NT. Windows 95/98/NT Redistributable
gettext utilities for Windows These utilities are required for creating catalogue files for internationalising wxWidgets 2 applications. Windows 95/98/NT GPL