Compiling and modding Toucan

Markus700 - February 26, 2010 - 9:06am

hey steven,

first i like to thank you for this awesome program.

I like to use the sourcecode to compile a modified version for my needs. My primary goal is hiding some of the tabs and advanced option. I´m going to use the modded version for a part of my thesis in order to get my degree. I hope thats ok for you. No one will ever get this version.

I downloaded the version from your mercurial repository and tried to compile the toucann.cpp with wxdev-cpp (gcc) compiler. failed...

here´s the compiling log:

Although i made a few Java programms, I`m not a expert in programming. So I could need help

Compiler: Default GCC compiler
Führt g++.exe... aus
g++.exe "C:/Users/Admin/toucan_11monate/toucan.cpp" -o "C:/Users/Admin/toucan_11monate/toucan.exe" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/include" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.5/backward" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.5/mingw32" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.5" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/3rdparty/wx/plotctrl" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/3rdparty/wx/sheet" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/3rdparty/wx/treemultictrl" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/3rdparty/wx/things" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/3rdparty/wx" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/3rdparty" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/msw" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/generic" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/fl" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/gizmos" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/html" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/mmedia" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/net" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/ogl" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/plot" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/protocol" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/stc" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/svg" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/xml" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/xrc" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx" -I"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common" -L"C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/Lib"
C:/Users/Admin/toucan_11monate/toucan.cpp:22:1: warning: "_WIN32_WINNT" redefined
In file included from C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/db.h:61,
from C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/variant.h:30,
from C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/colour.h:48,
from C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/bitmap.h:21,
from C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/generic/splash.h:15,
from C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/splash.h:15,
from C:/Users/Admin/toucan_11monate/toucan.cpp:8:
C:/Program Files (x86)/Dev-Cpp/include/common/wx/msw/wrapwin.h:43:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
C:/Users/Admin/toucan_11monate/toucan.cpp: In member function `virtual bool Toucan::OnInit()':
C:/Users/Admin/toucan_11monate/toucan.cpp:94: error: `wxInitAllImageHandlers' was not declared in this scope

C:/Users/Admin/toucan_11monate/toucan.cpp: In member function `void Toucan::KillConime()':
C:/Users/Admin/toucan_11monate/toucan.cpp:284: error: `wcsnlen' was not declared in this scope
C:/Users/Admin/toucan_11monate/toucan.cpp:286: error: cannot convert `CHAR*' to `const wchar_t*' for argument `1' to `int wcsncmp(const wchar_t*, const wchar_t*, size_t)'
C:/Users/Admin/toucan_11monate/toucan.cpp:286: error: cannot convert `CHAR*' to `const wchar_t*' for argument `1' to `int wcsncmp(const wchar_t*, const wchar_t*, size_t)'

Ausführung beendet
Compilation Failed. Make returned 1

( categories:

Toucan

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mingw

alexl_ru - February 26, 2010 - 1:23pm

This is just a top of the iceberg!

You can't compile this version under mingw (which is used by dev-cpp) since it uses libs that not supported by mingw (ccrypt). You'll have to fudge with MSVC.

Try older version, it has less features as you need and it's very easy to compile from the first try (e.g. under mingw):
http://portableapps.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/portableapps/toucan/

p.s.
> wxInitAllImageHandlers
You use the stable release of wx (<=2.8.x).
To compile toucan you'll have to get the most recent version of wx controls (>=2.9.0).

Not

Steve Lamerton

(Homepage) - February 26, 2010 - 1:32pm

strictly true I am afraid! ccrypt is not compiled in by Toucan (and is no longer in the repository) so that is not a problem.

Although wxInitAllImageHandlers does exist in wx2.8 alexl_ru is correct, I would recommend the 2.9.0 release on the wxwidgets homepage for compilation. Hopefully I will get a draft of a guide to compiling done this weekend as there seems to be interest all of a sudden!

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

would be nice

alexl_ru - February 26, 2010 - 1:57pm

BTW, my compilation didn't work after all. I think this is related to lua thing (luaopen_toucan() missing).

So, since you got rid of ccrypt, will be there any chance to compile Toucan under mingw? I remember a few uses of Platform SDK, but those didn't look as really necessary things.

So

Steve Lamerton

(Homepage) - February 27, 2010 - 10:33am

I have fixed a couple of bugs in mercurial and uploaded a quick guide to compiling here:

http://drop.io/toucantest/asset/toucan-031-pdf

If you have any more question please ask, I only test on Visual Studio and GCC at the moment, although I did use MinGW for a long time!

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

download

alexl_ru - February 28, 2010 - 6:07pm

What's the best way to download source files?

My current workaround:
1. goto here
http://portableapps.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/portableapps/toucan/file/1c...
2. parse html via regexps;
3. make every link point to raw file;
4. feed url list to wget;
5. apply (2)-(4) steps for the subdirs.

I think you'll need a

computerfreaker

(Homepage) - February 28, 2010 - 8:20pm

I think you'll need a Mercurial client, something like TortoiseHg.

"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."

what than?

alexl_ru - March 1, 2010 - 5:14am

Just installed one.
I think I have to run command like this:
hg.exe pull http://some_url_here

I've tried
hg.exe pull http://portableapps.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/portableapps/toucan/file/1c...

Nothing:
abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!

hg clone

computerfreaker

(Homepage) - March 1, 2010 - 9:01am

Well, I'm no hg wizard, but let's try using Chris Morgan's hg instructions for PAL, and just change them to work with the Toucan repository.

mkdir launcher
cd launcher
hg clone http://portableapps.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/portableapps/toucan/

To update to the latest revision,

hg pull
hg up

"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."

Nice

alexl_ru - March 1, 2010 - 11:08am

Thanks, it works!

hi steven, thank you for the

Markus700 - March 1, 2010 - 6:31am

thank you for the quick guide.

Here is what i´ve done yet:

1. Installed Windows 7 SDK
2. Build and added zlib
3. Exchanged the findwxwidget file.
4. Compiled wxwidgets with cmake for mingw and added the includes-path to compiler (Standard gcc compilerset in wxdev-c++).

Cmake created some files and folders (compilderidc,compileridcxx,cmaketmp,.......). Do i have to use these files in some way? I just added the wx\includes to compiler yet.

5. Added cxxtest to compiler
6. How to install LUA to Compiler? (not even my tutor has a clue)
7. How to install Swig to Compiler?

Current state of Compiling:
0 Errors, 0 Warnings, but failed

edit:

found errors:

toucan.cpp:82 GetConsoleWindow not declared in this scope
toucan.cpp:279 wcsnlen was not declared in this scope

macro

alexl_ru - March 1, 2010 - 11:16am

> toucan.cpp:82 GetConsoleWindow not declared in this scope

Make sure you have macro _WIN32_WINNT defined as 0x0500 (at least).

You

Steve Lamerton

(Homepage) - March 1, 2010 - 1:01pm

don't need to worry about adding anything to the compiler as CMake sets all of that up for you As for your other point what alexl_ru said should fix it!

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

ok defined. But i still have

Markus700 - March 1, 2010 - 4:40pm

ok defined.

But i still have the problem with wcsnlen. Its not declared in wchar.h oder string.h.

Ok,

Steve Lamerton

(Homepage) - March 1, 2010 - 5:22pm

seems it isn't defined in mingw, I won't be able to get a fix pushed tonight but I ought to be able to in the morning, sorry!

EDIT: You could just try a plain wcslen until I get it fixed though!

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

I

Steve Lamerton

(Homepage) - March 2, 2010 - 3:58am

have fixed and pushed the change, should work now!

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

Ok toucan.cpp in compiling

Markus700 - March 2, 2010 - 10:42am

Ok toucan.cpp in compiling fine.

Now:
20 C:\Users\Admin\toucan_02032010\forms\frmprogress.cpp shobjidl.h: No such file or directory.

found this file in windows sdk includes.I have added this folder to includes and produced a lot more errors

Well

Steve Lamerton

(Homepage) - March 2, 2010 - 11:56am

I can't suggest how to fix them unless you tell me what they are

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

Sorry i put them into a word

Markus700 - March 2, 2010 - 1:01pm

Sorry

i put them into a word file.

http://rapidshare.com/files/357956723/formprogress_errors.docx.html

Just tried to compile various other cpp files, seemes to work except formprogress.

Thanks for your help

I

Steve Lamerton

(Homepage) - March 4, 2010 - 3:14pm

have pushed a little change to the repository that will basically stop the Windows 7 taskbar stuff being compiled under MinGW until I have dive into what it is doing!

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

ok

Markus700 - March 5, 2010 - 8:29am

Seems that my former wxwidgets config is not working, have to reinstall it.

just if i did something wrong:

1. install to c:\wxwidgets-2.9.0
2. add c:\wxwidgets-2.9.0 to path.
2. replace findwxwidgets in cmake modules.
3. creating wx libs: mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc MONOLITHIC=0 SHARED=0 UNICODE=1 BUILD=debug
4. add c:\wxwidgets-2.9.0\lib\gcc_lib to path.
5. start cmake with cmakelists.txt in toucan rootfolder

CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:70 (MESSAGE):
Could NOT find wxWidgets (missing: wxWidgets_FOUND)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindwxWidgets.cmake:877 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
CMakeLists.txt:8 (find_package)

Sorry

Steve Lamerton

(Homepage) - March 12, 2010 - 7:47am

for the delay on this, has the correct path to wxWidgets been filled in in the CMake gui when this error happens?

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

cmake

alexl_ru - March 4, 2010 - 7:50pm

I'm trying to compile Toucan using CMake and stuck with cxxtest.
CXXTEST subtree features 3 variables to set:
1. CXXTEST_INCLUDE_DIR (value = D:\Programs\mingw\cxxtest\cxxtest)
2. CXXTEST_PERL_TESTGEN_EXECUTABLE (value = CXXTEST_PERL_TESTGEN_EXECUTABLE-NOTFOUND)
3. CXXTEST_PYTHON_TESTGEN_EXECUTABLE (value = D:\Programs\mingw\python\python.exe )

Is python required to build the app?
What is Python Testgen executable?
I've installed some Python 2.6.4 from here: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.4/

After generating makefile the build process fails when it gets to test.h

[ 60%] Generating D:/Develop/Toucan/source/toucan_hg/test.cpp
mingw32-make.exe[2]: *** [D:/Develop/Toucan/source/toucan_hg/test.cpp] Error 2
mingw32-make.exe[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/toucan.dir/all] Error 2
mingw32-make.exe: *** [all] Error 2

upd. Solution
0. Set variable (1) above to "D:\Programs\mingw\cxxtest"
1. Set variable (3) above to "D:\Programs\mingw\python\python.exe D:\Programs\mingw\cxxtest\cxxtestgen.py"
2. Configure/Generate
3. Edit file toucan_build\CMakeFiles\toucan.dir\build.make
1) Found string containing python.exe
2) make it look like
"D:\Programs\mingw\python\python.exe" D:\Programs\mingw\cxxtest\cxxtestgen.py -o D:/Develop/Toucan/source/toucan_hg/test.cpp D:/Develop/Toucan/source/toucan_hg/test.h

Yes

Steve Lamerton

(Homepage) - March 12, 2010 - 7:44am

you are right, either python or perl is needed, I will hopefully do some more updates to the compiling guide this weekend, sorry it is taking a while, very busy at university at the moment!

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

A

Steve Lamerton

(Homepage) - March 16, 2010 - 5:12pm

quick update to the MinGW stuff, I nearly have it compiling, it goes all the way to linking and then fails, but I know why, hopefully I will be able to post fixed working instructions tomorrow.

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

So

Steve Lamerton

(Homepage) - March 17, 2010 - 1:54pm

I finally got it all working today and have pushed another fix to the Mercurial repository, this is what I did:

Install Python, then add it to path
Download cxxtest and add it to path
Install MinGW and add it to path
Download SWIG and add it to path
Download wxWidgets 2.9 and build it with
```
mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc
```
Run CMake, it should fill in all the paths apart from the Toucan_Output which you need to fill in. Then generate the makefiles
Navigate to the build folder and run
```
mingw32-make
```
Toucan should build!

There are still a couple if issues, mainly with the manifest, but I think I know how to fix this, hopefully I will get a commit in later to fix it.

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

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