This archive contains a collection of IDE files created with and for
wxwin 1.62e and Borland C++ version 4.5. I didn't try them with
BC 4.x but think that both versions use the same project file format.

Most people seem to be happy using the makefiles provided with the
wx distribution, i don't really understand why, i used wx to learn
both C++ and GUI programming and i think for that purpose the IDE
with it's possibility to jump from error to error in the source is
far superior to the command line compiler.
Anyway, i created these files because i like the IDE and i hope they
are useful for other people as well.

I decided to create only one library file instead of the collection
of libraries created by the makefiles. And i decided to copy all
which are not in either .\include\base and .\include\msw t
.\include\extra.
The reasons for that are simple, first, the required include path
would be too long for the BCC IDE otherwise, second, it's much
easier to change the directories if wx and/or BCC is installed in
a different location than on my machine and third, i never knew
exactly anyway, which libraries to include.

The installation is simple, if the zip files was uncompressed with
pkzip -d bcc_ide.zip, all zip files should be in the correct places.
Additionally, there is a bat file, "copy_inc.bat", which creates the
directory .\include\extra and copies all required files to this
directory. Execute this batch file, enter the IDE, open
.\src\msw\wx.ide and make the library. If wx is installed in a different
directory than c:\wxwin or if BCC is not in c:\bc45, open "Options,
Project, Directories", and change the "Include", "Library" and "Final"
field. Since there are only 4 include and 2 lib directories, this
takes less than a minute. The same changes are necessary for the
IDE files for the executables, for your own programs, just copy one
of the project files, rename it and add your own source files.

I didn't add src\msw\wx_db to the main library because I don't have
the required headers. An alternative would be to set USE_ODBC to 0 in
"include\base\wx_setup.h" but i guess, this will the the default anyway
in the next version. It's as easy to add the source file as it is to
change the setup. Some (two or three) of the examples, for example
memcheck or vlist, will not work because the library has to be compiled
with special options, i didn't try that, the project files are there,
define DEBUG=1 (or whatever else is necessary) and recompile the
library and the executable.

I tried to compile the library for WIN32, in theory it should only be
necessary to change the target. It didn't compile because of problems
in the sources, other people supplied patches but i didn't try them, i
don't see many reasons in most cases to use WIN32, it compiles much
slower and most applications don't need it (i guess, maybe it makes
it easier to write portable applications).

I didn't find out how to use .cc as one of the default extension for
adding or opening files, maybe somebody can tell me, also tell me if
one or more of the project files don't work. I'll try to keep this
collection in sync with coming wxwin versions and hope it's useful
for a few people.

Gerhard Vogt

European Molecular Biology Lab
Meyerhofstrasse 1
69126 Heidelberg
Germany

VOGT@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE