wxruby users - Jun 2006 - wxruby/version/linux

Dear WxRuby users and hackers,

am I right that WxRuby 0.6 which I have downloaded today from the
webpage is based on WxWidgets 2.4, which is based on GTK 1.2?

I have tried to run ''make'' after ''ruby
extconf.rb'' with
WxRuby0.6/WxWidgets 2.6.3 but I got this error:

~/ruby/src/wxruby-0.6-src/src$ make
g++ -fPIC -O2 `wx-config --cxxflags`   -I.
-I/home/pgundlach/ruby/1.8.4/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux
-I/home/pgundlach/ruby/1.8.4/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I.   -c wx.cpp
wx.cpp:29: error: new declaration ''int wxEntryStart(int&,
char**)''
/opt/wxGTK/include/wx-2.6/wx/init.h:29: error: ambiguates old declaration
''bool wxEntryStart(int&, wxChar**)''
make: *** [wx.o] Error 1

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Is there any (cvs/whatever) version that runs with wx2.6.3?

Patrick

Hi Patrick

Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> am I right that WxRuby 0.6 which I have downloaded today from the
> webpage is based on WxWidgets 2.4, which is based on GTK 1.2?
>   
Yes.
> I have tried to run ''make'' after ''ruby
extconf.rb'' with
> WxRuby0.6/WxWidgets 2.6.3 but I got this error:
>   
Wxruby 0.6.0 doesn''t officially support WxWidgets 2.6.x series. Someone
posted a patch that might help run 0.6.0 with 2.6.x, but I haven''t
tried
it myself. It looks as if it might be relevant to the problem you''re 
seeing: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wxruby-users/2005-April/001196.html

but ...
> Is there any (cvs/whatever) version that runs with wx2.6.3?
>   
I would strongly recommend that you use cvs to download HEAD of module 
wxruby2, which is the re-implementation of wxruby using SWIG. This 
targets WxWidgets 2.6.x, which uses GTK 2. It looks and acts much nicer, 
and has some extra classes ported.

You will need to install rake, and an up-to-date SWIG (we are hoping to 
release a package which doesn''t require these "soon").
Wxruby2 still has
bugs, missing items and instability - it is not release quality yet. But 
if you report bugs to this list, they will be acted on and useful, 
whereas bugs in wxruby 0.6.0 (there are a good few there too) are 
unlikely to get fixed.

HTH
alex