It’s been a long time I didn’t write any tutorials… so I think I should now write one.

p/s. If you want to compile wxWidgets with some other settings, please edit the .bat file below by yourself.

First, of course download the latest stable wxWidgets from http://www.wxwidgets.org

After that, download the latest minGW compiler and MSys from http://www.mingw.org

If you have Code::Blocks IDE installed, with minGW in it, please STILL download a standalone minGW because the one included in C::B might not work (and to save your time of course).

After you’ve installed both of them, copy the codes below, which I obtained from the internet (I forgot where lol) and modified.

@ECHO OFF

ECHO Please enter the path to MinGW
ECHO (example, C:\MinGW\bin)

SET /p PATH=

ECHO Please enter the installation path of wxWidgets
ECHO (example, C:\wxWidgets-2.8.10)

SET /p WX=

ECHO Executing…

cd %WX%\build\msw

@ECHO ON

%PATH%\mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc UNICODE=1 SHARED=1 MONOLITHIC=1 BUILD=release clean

%PATH%\mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc UNICODE=1 SHARED=1 MONOLITHIC=1 BUILD=release

ECHO Compilation done

ECHO Press any key to exit
PAUSE>NUL

Paste the code into text editor and save it as .bat file, for example, CompileWxWidgets.bat.

After that, double click the .bat file. You should see something like this:

Follow the instruction by inserting both the directories of MinGW and wxWidgets. After that you should see something crazy like this going on:

It should take couple of minutes so be patient.

If you don’t want to compile at all, just like me, you can download wxPack at http://wxpack.sourceforge.net it’s the fully compiled package which can be used instantly.

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