Does WxPack works with GCC 4.5/4.6 Series - wxwidgets

Hello I have installed TDM-GCC compiler suite for windows. Do i need to install MinGW 5.1.3 gcc 3.4.5 (candidate) to make wxpack work as said here

A late reply but here goes...
You can rebuild wxwidgets with whatever version you have I think.
In the build/msw directory you'll find a wxBuild_wxWidgets.bat file supporting
any number of compilers (I recompiled to match my VC++2008).
Near the top of the batch file are two variables, GCCDIR and GCC4DIR. Set the latter
to point to your GCC 4.x location. Then rebuild with
wxBuild_wxWidgets.bat MINGW4 ALL
It should work but I haven't tried it. On my old P4 Dell the build with VC90 took awhile.

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How to check Mono version at COMPILE time with xbuild, not Runtime

I know how to check at runtime, but that does no good for my current problem. I have an issue where a certain version of mono (Mono < 4.8.0) does not have TLS 1.1 nor 1.2 support and would not even compile, let alone run. So I need to add a #if to determine which version of mono is being used to compile with but I cant find anything that would do this. #if MONO is not sufficient. Another useful cheatsheet would be something that lists all of mono's predefined vars that are available to the compiler. I'm sure version would probably have been one of those items.
BTW, all users of this project would be compiling the app themselves, so there is no need to do runtime checking. If their mono doesnt support TLS 1.1/1.2, then it should still build on their machine, their particular binary just wouldnt have 1.1/1.2 in them which is completely fine since only they would be running it anyway.
You can export a env var. and use it to set a compiler directive:
Example:
export MONO_VERSION=`mono --version | grep version | cut -d " " -f 5`
echo $MONO_VERSION
5.10.0.179

Downloading JUST g++ binary

This question may seem stupid to you guys, but I am in a situation where I have no access to command line, and I need a version of g++ on my computer so I can compile my c++ code.
I looked on the GNU repository, and I have NO idea how to build and also install the environment.
Where can I simply just download the 'g++' file, without going through all these trouble?
Thanks in advance
Where can I simply just download the 'g++' file, without going through all these trouble?
Downloading the g++ file will not do you any good: the GNU C++ compiler distribution consists of several hundreds of files. The g++ is just the compiler front end, you'll also need cc1plus (the actual compiler), header files and libraries.

Building a cross-platform application (using Rust)

I started to learn Rust programming language and I use Linux. I'd like to build a cross-platform application using this language.
The question might not be related to Rust language in particular, but nonetheless, how do I do that? I'm interested in building a "Hello World" cross-platform application as well as for more complicated ones. I just need to get the idea.
So what do I do?
UPDATE:
What I want to do is the ability to run a program on 3 different platforms without changing the sources. Do I have to build a new binary file for each platform from the sources? Just like I could do in C
To run on multiple platforms you need to build an executable for each as #huon-dbauapp commented.
This is fairly straightforward with Rust. You use "--target=" with rustc to tell it what you want to build. The same flag works with Cargo.
For example, this builds for an ARM target:
cargo build --target=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
See the Rust Flexible Target Specification for more about targets.
However, Rust doesn't ship with the std Crate compiled for ARM (as of June 2015). If this is the case for your target, you'll first need to compile the std Crates for the target yourself, which involves compiling the Rust compiler from source, and specifying the target for that build!
For information, most of this is copied from: https://github.com/japaric/ruststrap/blob/master/1-how-to-cross-compile.md
The following instructions are for gcc, so if you don't have this you'll need to install it. You'll also need the corresponding cross compiler tools, so for gcc:
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf
Compile Rust std Crate For ARM
The following example assumes you've already installed the current Rust Nightly, so we'll just get the sources and compile for ARM. If you are using a different version of the compiler, you'll need to get that to ensure your ARM libraries match the version of the compiler you're using to build your projects.
mkdir ~/toolchains
cd ~/toolchains
git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.git
cd rust
git update
Build rustc for ARM
cd ~/toolchains/rust
./configure --target=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf,x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
make -j4
sudo make install
Note "-j4" needs at least 8GB RAM, so if you hit a problem above try "make" instead.
Install ARM rustc libraries In native rustc build
sudo ln -s $HOME/src/rust/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf /usr/lib/rustlib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
Create hello.rs containing:
pub fn main() {
println!("Hello, world!");
}
Compile hello.rs, and tell rustc the name of the cross-compiler (which must be in your PATH):
rustc -C linker=arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-4.9 --target=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf hello.rs
Check that the produced binary is really an ARM binary:
$ file hello
hello: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), (..)
SUCCESS!!!:
Check: the binary should work on an ARM device
$ scp hello me#arm:~
$ ssh me#arm ./hello
Hello, world!
I've used this to build and link a Rust project with a separate C library as well. Instructions similar to the above on how to do this, dynamically or statically are in a separate post, but I've used my link quota up already!
The best way to figure this out is to download the source code for Servo and explore it on your own. Servo is absolutely a cross-platform codebase, so it will have to address all of these questions, whether they be answered in build/configuration files, or the Rust source itself.
It looks like the rust compiler might not be ready to build standalone binaries for windows yet (see the windows section here), so this probably can't be done yet.
For posix systems it should mostly Just Work unless you're trying to do GUI stuff.
Yes, you won't need to change the source, unless you are using specific libraries that are not cross-platform.
But as #dbaupp said native executables are different on each platform, *nix uses ELF, Windows PE, and OSX Mach-O. So you will need to compile it for each platform.
I don't know the state of cross-compiling in rust, but if they already implemented it, then you should be able to build all the binaries in the same platform, if not, you will have to build each binary on it's platform.

How to cross compile CMake for ARM with CMake

In short I'm trying to cross compile CMake with CMake, and I don't think I'm linking libraries correctly. What I want to do may not be possible, but I'd at least like to know why it isn't possible if that's the case.
System: The host is a Linux box with a Cavium ARM9 CPU. It's currently running version 2.6.24.4 of the Linux kernel and Debian 5.0 (Lenny). My workstation is a Core i5 running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin).
My overall goal is to get ROS running on the Linux box. I have to compile from source rather than use apt since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) binaries require thumb support that the Cavium does not give, and not many of the needed packages are available for Debian 5.0 (Lenny). I'd made progress installing the various libraries needed, but when I got to step 1.3.1 and tried to run CMake, I got the error
CMake 2.8 or higher is required. You are running version 2.6.0
Next I tried to download and build CMake 2.8.8 on the Linux box itself, but it was too much for the system. When that failed, I downloaded the toolchain suggested on the manufacturer's website and used the cross-compiling guide at [www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling] to build the CMake executables. Here is my toolchain file:
# This one is important
SET(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Linux)
# Specify the cross compiler
SET(CMAKE_C_COMPILER /pathto/crosstool-linux-gcc-4.5.2-gclibc-2.9-oabi/arm-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/arm-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc)
SET(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER /pathto/crosstool-linux-gcc-4.5.2-gclibc-2.9-oabi/arm-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/arm-unknown-linux-gnu-g++)
# Where is the target environment
SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH /pathto/crosstool-linux-gcc-4.5.2-gclibc-2.9-oabi/arm-unknown-linux-gnu /pathto/crosstool-linux-gcc-4.5.2-gclibc-2.9-oabi/arm-unknown-linux-gnu/arm-unknown-linux-gnu)
# Search for programs in the build host directories
SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM NEVER)
# For libraries and headers in the target directories
SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY ONLY)
SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE ONLY)
However, use of the binary on the Linux box gives the error
cmake: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by cmake)
Sure enough, the library is not there:
prompt# strings /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 | grep GLIBC
GLIBCXX_3.4
GLIBCXX_3.4.1
GLIBCXX_3.4.2
GLIBCXX_3.4.3
GLIBCXX_3.4.4
GLIBCXX_3.4.5
GLIBCXX_3.4.6
GLIBCXX_3.4.7
GLIBCXX_3.4.8
GLIBCXX_3.4.9
GLIBCXX_3.4.10
GLIBC_2.3
GLIBC_2.0
GLIBC_2.3.2
GLIBC_2.1
GLIBC_2.1.3
GLIBC_2.2
GLIBCXX_FORCE_NEW
GLIBCXX_DEBUG_MESSAGE_LENGTH
I've never cross-compiled before, but I can see one of two scenarios happening: either the binary got created with a link to a higher version of glibcxx on the host machine or the manufacturer's toolchain is more modern than their image. I don't know how to check which is happening or if something else is happening that I don't know about.
My last effort involved trying to statically cross-compile CMake to hopefully get rid of the linking error with
cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../toolchain-technologic.cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_RELEASE="-static" ..
I got build errors, and that binary didn't work either. I got:
FATAL: kernel too old
Segmentation fault
I'd try installing glibcxx 3.4.14 on the Linux box, but it doesn't look like it's available for this processor.
I've tried searching for CMake dependencies or system requirements and can't find anything. I've also searched on how to build CMake, but most searches turn up how to build other things with CMake rather than building CMake itself.
I do cross-compile a lot for ARM9 devices using CMake, and indeed this looks like you're not linking to the same libs you have on your target device. You shouldn't need to build CMake yourself to get this done, since it does have good support for cross-compiling since version 2.6. Just make sure you set the CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH variable to a path where you have an exact copy of the root filesystem you have on your target device (with libraries and binaries pre-compiled for the target processor). That should solve your problems.
As a sidenote, I like to use crosstool-ng for building my cross-compilers. It is a really nice tool which helps you to build them from scratch, so I try to match the compiler version and glibc to the ones originally used to build the root filesystem (I usually start with a ready made root filesystem from ARMedslack, since I use Slackware for my development box and ARMedslack for my ARM targets).

LLVM based project lib dependencies for CMake on windows

This has been asked here before but I couldn't find a solution which works for me.
Sample CMakeLists.txt file for LLVM project - This was the original question.
However, there are a couple of issues I am facing when making a project with LLVM.
Platform: Windows 7
Compiler: MingW
1) Firstly, I am using the svn version of llvm which is currently at 3.1. Currently, Binaries for MingW are not present for llvm 3.0 too so I decided to go with the latest itself and build it with mingw. So although the build works fine, I cannot seem to find the llvm-config perl script in the bin folder. I tried searching the entire dir yet I can only find an llvm-config folder and a dependencies file.
2) I tried building llvm for Visual studio 2010 yet that didn't work with cmake so I had to use MingW.
3) Now, this is sequence in which I add libs to CMake -
LLVMXCoreInfo
LLVMMipsAsmPrinter
LLVMMipsCodeGen
LLVMMipsInfo
LLVMMBlazeAsmPrinter
LLVMMBlazeCodeGen
LLVMMBlazeInfo
LLVMLinker
LLVMipo
LLVMInterpreter
LLVMInstrumentation
LLVMJIT
LLVMExecutionEngine
LLVMMC
LLVMBitWriter
LLVMX86Disassembler
LLVMX86AsmParser
LLVMX86AsmPrinter
LLVMX86CodeGen
LLVMX86Info
LLVMAsmParser
LLVMARMAsmParser
LLVMMCParser
LLVMARMAsmPrinter
LLVMARMCodeGen
LLVMARMInfo
LLVMArchive
LLVMBitReader
LLVMSelectionDAG
LLVMAsmPrinter
LLVMCodeGen
LLVMScalarOpts
LLVMInstCombine
LLVMTransformUtils
LLVMipa
LLVMAnalysis
LLVMTarget
LLVMMC
LLVMCore
LLVMSupport
imagehlp
psapi
m
4) However, adding InitializeNativeTarget(), starts giving me linking errors which I think come because of the dependencies not being in right order.
5) I want to use the llvm_map_components_to_libraries(REQ_LLVM_LIBRARIES jit native) and hence I added this to my CMakeLists.txt
INCLUDE(cmake/LLVM-Config.cmake)
However, this doesn't work. CMake Error at cmake/LLVM-Config.cmake:141 (message):
Library `jit' not found in list of llvm libraries.
Now, the question is really too long but I basically wanted to ask what is the best way to do this in CMake. Could someone post the entire thing (for windows).
Also, is there a way to build it for VS 2010. I tried the instructions on CLang site but those gave me this error in CMake.
" string sub-command REGEX, mode MATCH needs at least 5 arguments total to command."
I really need some help figuring out how to get dependencies to work in llvm and for it to build with VS. I would really appreciate some help.