This file describes how I build wxWidgets and wxPython while doing development and testing, and is meant to help other people that want to do the same thing. Those readers who have attempted this in previous releases of the software will probably notice that this file is much smaller than it was before. Much thanks for this goes to Kevin Ollivier who wrote the initial VERSION of the new build scripts and then guilted me into starting to use and maintain them myself.

Building of both wxWidgets and wxPython is now handled by the wxPython/build-wxpython.py script in the source TREE. It takes care of all the nasty and confusing details that USED to be documented in this file. Pretty much all you need to worry about now is having the build tools and dependent libraries installed on your system and specifying where to install the results, if other than the standard location.

If you want to make changes to any of the *.i files, (SWIG interface definition files,) then you will need to use a special patched version of SWIG. Get the sources for version 1.3.29, and then apply the patches in wxPython/SWIG and then build SWIG like normal. See the README.txt in the wxPython/SWIG dir for details about each patch.

If you install this build of SWIG to a location that is not on the PATH (so it doesn't INTERFERE with an existing SWIG install for example) then you can set a SWIG environment variable to the full path of this new BINARY to tell the build script which SWIG to use.

This file describes how I build wxWidgets and wxPython while doing development and testing, and is meant to help other people that want to do the same thing. Those readers who have attempted this in previous releases of the software will probably notice that this file is much smaller than it was before. Much thanks for this goes to Kevin Ollivier who wrote the initial version of the new build scripts and then guilted me into starting to use and maintain them myself.

Building of both wxWidgets and wxPython is now handled by the wxPython/build-wxpython.py script in the source tree. It takes care of all the nasty and confusing details that used to be documented in this file. Pretty much all you need to worry about now is having the build tools and dependent libraries installed on your system and specifying where to install the results, if other than the standard location.

If you want to make changes to any of the *.i files, (SWIG interface definition files,) then you will need to use a special patched version of SWIG. Get the sources for version 1.3.29, and then apply the patches in wxPython/SWIG and then build SWIG like normal. See the README.txt in the wxPython/SWIG dir for details about each patch.

If you install this build of SWIG to a location that is not on the PATH (so it doesn't interfere with an existing SWIG install for example) then you can set a SWIG environment variable to the full path of this new binary to tell the build script which SWIG to use.