[OTR-dev] Building otrproxy-0.3.1 with wxGTK-2.6

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Sat Dec 8 20:03:25 EST 2007


On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 01:06:33PM +0100, Hendrik Iben wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just trying to get started using OTR and was firsted stopped when
> trying to build otrproxy.
> My linux distribution (Gentoo) does not support wxWindows 2.5 anymore
> but wxGTK 2.6. The configure script is unable to use the 2.6 libraries
> on my system and has some other problems.
> 
> After some trial-and-error I was able to solve my problems with a small
> patch and maybe this is of use for somebody else.
> 
> I'm posting this to the user- and dev-mailing-list because I am not sure
> where 'patching the source' fits... :-)

otr-dev, I think.

> This patch only messes with the GUI-code and was tested with
> wxGTK-2.6.3.3 on x86 and 2.6.4.0 on amd64.
> 
> Technically this patch only makes the linker use the non-static
> wxGTK-libraries and resolves an ambigous constructor.

Thanks!

   - Ian



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