Thread: Problems building pgAdmin with wxWidgets binaries for Windows
Hi,
I'm quite new to pgAdmin and wxWidgets, but since I never managed to build wxWidgets from source, I eventually found wxWidgets 2.9.4 binaries (http://wxwidgets.blogspot.fr/2012/08/how-to-use-294-wxmsw-binaries.html) which I'm now using to build pgAdmin3 1.16.1.
However, now I get a linker error saying "cannot open file 'wxbase28u.lib'" and I don't know where the problem is. I can find wxbase29u-lib in the directories and I assume it should be trying to link with that one...
Would really appreciate any help with this one - thanks.
KariK
Hi Kari,
I assume you followed the instructions from pgadmin.org?
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgadmin3.git;a=blob;f=INSTALL;h=b8ec1a51fd877efc1be701f4ed938b92daf219fc;hb=REL-1_16_0_PATCHES
I was struggling with wxWidgets on Windows as well since the instructions didn't seem to work with my installation of VC++ 2010 Express. I'm no expert on this, but my guess is that it'll still be easier to get wxWidgets 2.8 to work than make pgAdmin compile with version 2.9.
You didn't mention which version of Visual C++ you are using, but I wanted to use the Express edition and ended up having to install both VC 2008 Express and 2010 Express to make the supplied build-wxmsw.bat work and at as well be able to open the pgAdmin solution file.
My rather clumsy and trial-and-error-driven approach was (from memory):
- Use VC 2008 Express to execute pgAdmin's supplied build-wxmsw.bat, since VC 2010 Express doesn't seem to include vcbuild.exe any more.
However, 2008's vcbuild.exe didn't recognize wxWidget's .dsp files as project files (the error message was something like "make sure the file is from VC++4 or newer bla"), so I opened all the needed .dsp files one by one in VC 2008 Express using File -> Open -> Project (NOT File -> Open -> File!). For each project file, VC asked to upgrade it, which I confirmed, causing VC to kindly generate a .vcproj file for the respective .dsp file. This is the first part of what pgAdmin's build-wxmsw.bat was supposed to do.
- Then (still in VC 2008) I executed build-wxmsw.bat again in order to build the binaries. Which worked, as far as I remember.
- Since pgAdmin's solution file is for version 2010, use VC 2010 Express to open it.
I also had to change a few of the project's include paths in order for VC to find all the needed external libraries when compiling pgAdmin, but that's no biggie. I also wasn't aware at the beginning that I had to download the binary distributions of the libraries and not the source packages. But that may be due to my general lack of experience with these things.
Took me an evening to work all this out, but at least I learned something new along the way.
Oh BTW, if you need to get VC++ 2008 Express from the web, make sure the web installer you are using does indeed download version 2008 and not 2010. Microsoft seems to have replaced the old installer with the new one in place, so many old links found on the web that are labeled "2008" actually point to the 2010 installer now. This was almost driving me nuts :-)
Hope this helps.
Florian
I assume you followed the instructions from pgadmin.org?
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgadmin3.git;a=blob;f=INSTALL;h=b8ec1a51fd877efc1be701f4ed938b92daf219fc;hb=REL-1_16_0_PATCHES
I was struggling with wxWidgets on Windows as well since the instructions didn't seem to work with my installation of VC++ 2010 Express. I'm no expert on this, but my guess is that it'll still be easier to get wxWidgets 2.8 to work than make pgAdmin compile with version 2.9.
You didn't mention which version of Visual C++ you are using, but I wanted to use the Express edition and ended up having to install both VC 2008 Express and 2010 Express to make the supplied build-wxmsw.bat work and at as well be able to open the pgAdmin solution file.
My rather clumsy and trial-and-error-driven approach was (from memory):
- Use VC 2008 Express to execute pgAdmin's supplied build-wxmsw.bat, since VC 2010 Express doesn't seem to include vcbuild.exe any more.
However, 2008's vcbuild.exe didn't recognize wxWidget's .dsp files as project files (the error message was something like "make sure the file is from VC++4 or newer bla"), so I opened all the needed .dsp files one by one in VC 2008 Express using File -> Open -> Project (NOT File -> Open -> File!). For each project file, VC asked to upgrade it, which I confirmed, causing VC to kindly generate a .vcproj file for the respective .dsp file. This is the first part of what pgAdmin's build-wxmsw.bat was supposed to do.
- Then (still in VC 2008) I executed build-wxmsw.bat again in order to build the binaries. Which worked, as far as I remember.
- Since pgAdmin's solution file is for version 2010, use VC 2010 Express to open it.
I also had to change a few of the project's include paths in order for VC to find all the needed external libraries when compiling pgAdmin, but that's no biggie. I also wasn't aware at the beginning that I had to download the binary distributions of the libraries and not the source packages. But that may be due to my general lack of experience with these things.
Took me an evening to work all this out, but at least I learned something new along the way.
Oh BTW, if you need to get VC++ 2008 Express from the web, make sure the web installer you are using does indeed download version 2008 and not 2010. Microsoft seems to have replaced the old installer with the new one in place, so many old links found on the web that are labeled "2008" actually point to the 2010 installer now. This was almost driving me nuts :-)
Hope this helps.
Florian
Hi Florian,
Thanks a lot for your quick and detailed response.
Yes, I followed those pgAdmin building instructions from the INSTALL file. But I struggled (including discovering that vcbuild has been replaced with msbuild with incompatible switches...) with that stuff for a couple of days and gave up, and was hoping the wxWidgets binaries+headers would be the way to go. I am getting much further with this approach but still failing at the end.
I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Professional (running on 64bit Win 7); not sure if that is a problem. I have noticed that at wxWiki (http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Guide) they recommend using VC++ 2008 Express edition which, as you pointed out, is not so easy to find anymore.
But as I said, currently my build fails since 'wxbase28u.lib' is not there. However, 'wxbase29u.lib' is there (because I'm using the 2.9.4 binaries, I assume), but I just don't know why the linker is looking for the 28 version and not the 29 version, and how to change this...
KariK
From: Florian Klaar <flo.klaar@gmx.de>
To: Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com>
Cc: "pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:40 AM
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Problems building pgAdmin with wxWidgets binaries for Windows
Hi Kari,
I assume you followed the instructions from pgadmin.org?
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgadmin3.git;a=blob;f=INSTALL;h=b8ec1a51fd877efc1be701f4ed938b92daf219fc;hb=REL-1_16_0_PATCHES
I was struggling with wxWidgets on Windows as well since the instructions didn't seem to work with my installation of VC++ 2010 Express. I'm no expert on this, but my guess is that it'll still be easier to get wxWidgets 2.8 to work than make pgAdmin compile with version 2.9.
You didn't mention which version of Visual C++ you are using, but I wanted to use the Express edition and ended up having to install both VC 2008 Express and 2010 Express to make the supplied build-wxmsw.bat work and at as well be able to open the pgAdmin solution file.
My rather clumsy and trial-and-error-driven approach was (from memory):
- Use VC 2008 Express to execute pgAdmin's supplied build-wxmsw.bat, since VC 2010 Express doesn't seem to include vcbuild.exe any more.
However, 2008's vcbuild.exe didn't recognize wxWidget's .dsp files as project files (the error message was something like "make sure the file is from VC++4 or newer bla"), so I opened all the needed .dsp files one by one in VC 2008 Express using File -> Open -> Project (NOT File -> Open -> File!). For each project file, VC asked to upgrade it, which I confirmed, causing VC to kindly generate a .vcproj file for the respective .dsp file. This is the first part of what pgAdmin's build-wxmsw.bat was supposed to do.
- Then (still in VC 2008) I executed build-wxmsw.bat again in order to build the binaries. Which worked, as far as I remember.
- Since pgAdmin's solution file is for version 2010, use VC 2010 Express to open it.
I also had to change a few of the project's include paths in order for VC to find all the needed external libraries when compiling pgAdmin, but that's no biggie. I also wasn't aware at the beginning that I had to download the binary distributions of the libraries and not the source packages. But that may be due to my general lack of experience with these things.
Took me an evening to work all this out, but at least I learned something new along the way.
Oh BTW, if you need to get VC++ 2008 Express from the web, make sure the web installer you are using does indeed download version 2008 and not 2010. Microsoft seems to have replaced the old installer with the new one in place, so many old links found on the web that are labeled "2008" actually point to the 2010 installer now. This was almost driving me nuts :-)
Hope this helps.
Florian
I assume you followed the instructions from pgadmin.org?
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgadmin3.git;a=blob;f=INSTALL;h=b8ec1a51fd877efc1be701f4ed938b92daf219fc;hb=REL-1_16_0_PATCHES
I was struggling with wxWidgets on Windows as well since the instructions didn't seem to work with my installation of VC++ 2010 Express. I'm no expert on this, but my guess is that it'll still be easier to get wxWidgets 2.8 to work than make pgAdmin compile with version 2.9.
You didn't mention which version of Visual C++ you are using, but I wanted to use the Express edition and ended up having to install both VC 2008 Express and 2010 Express to make the supplied build-wxmsw.bat work and at as well be able to open the pgAdmin solution file.
My rather clumsy and trial-and-error-driven approach was (from memory):
- Use VC 2008 Express to execute pgAdmin's supplied build-wxmsw.bat, since VC 2010 Express doesn't seem to include vcbuild.exe any more.
However, 2008's vcbuild.exe didn't recognize wxWidget's .dsp files as project files (the error message was something like "make sure the file is from VC++4 or newer bla"), so I opened all the needed .dsp files one by one in VC 2008 Express using File -> Open -> Project (NOT File -> Open -> File!). For each project file, VC asked to upgrade it, which I confirmed, causing VC to kindly generate a .vcproj file for the respective .dsp file. This is the first part of what pgAdmin's build-wxmsw.bat was supposed to do.
- Then (still in VC 2008) I executed build-wxmsw.bat again in order to build the binaries. Which worked, as far as I remember.
- Since pgAdmin's solution file is for version 2010, use VC 2010 Express to open it.
I also had to change a few of the project's include paths in order for VC to find all the needed external libraries when compiling pgAdmin, but that's no biggie. I also wasn't aware at the beginning that I had to download the binary distributions of the libraries and not the source packages. But that may be due to my general lack of experience with these things.
Took me an evening to work all this out, but at least I learned something new along the way.
Oh BTW, if you need to get VC++ 2008 Express from the web, make sure the web installer you are using does indeed download version 2008 and not 2010. Microsoft seems to have replaced the old installer with the new one in place, so many old links found on the web that are labeled "2008" actually point to the 2010 installer now. This was almost driving me nuts :-)
Hope this helps.
Florian
Hi,
in configure phase (on other platforms, I haven't looked at Windows) there is a setting:
--with-wx-version=2.9
If you can find something similar, that might help.
On 10.2.2013, at 9.12, Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Florian,Thanks a lot for your quick and detailed response.Yes, I followed those pgAdmin building instructions from the INSTALL file. But I struggled (including discovering that vcbuild has been replaced with msbuild with incompatible switches...) with that stuff for a couple of days and gave up, and was hoping the wxWidgets binaries+headers would be the way to go. I am getting much further with this approach but still failing at the end.I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Professional (running on 64bit Win 7); not sure if that is a problem. I have noticed that at wxWiki (http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Guide) they recommend using VC++ 2008 Express edition which, as you pointed out, is not so easy to find anymore.But as I said, currently my build fails since 'wxbase28u.lib' is not there. However, 'wxbase29u.lib' is there (because I'm using the 2.9.4 binaries, I assume), but I just don't know why the linker is looking for the 28 version and not the 29 version, and how to change this...KariK
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Hi,
in configure phase (on other platforms, I haven't looked at Windows) there is a setting:
--with-wx-version=2.9
If you can find something similar, that might help.
On 10.2.2013, at 9.12, Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Florian,Thanks a lot for your quick and detailed response.Yes, I followed those pgAdmin building instructions from the INSTALL file. But I struggled (including discovering that vcbuild has been replaced with msbuild with incompatible switches...) with that stuff for a couple of days and gave up, and was hoping the wxWidgets binaries+headers would be the way to go. I am getting much further with this approach but still failing at the end.I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Professional (running on 64bit Win 7); not sure if that is a problem. I have noticed that at wxWiki (http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Guide) they recommend using VC++ 2008 Express edition which, as you pointed out, is not so easy to find anymore.But as I said, currently my build fails since 'wxbase28u.lib' is not there. However, 'wxbase29u.lib' is there (because I'm using the 2.9.4 binaries, I assume), but I just don't know why the linker is looking for the 28 version and not the 29 version, and how to change this...KariK
!
! Jyrki Wahlstedt
!
! Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one and perhaps will.
! PGP key ID: 0x139CC386 fingerprint: F355 B46F 026C B8C1 89C0 A780 6366 EFD9 139C C386
Hi,
my concern regarding 2.9 was that the pgAdmin code may be partly incompatible, but from a quick look at the mailing list, it seems that this has been addressed a long time ago, so I guess it should work.
To change the reference in VC 2010 (Express):
Properties of the "pgAdmin3" project -> Configuration properties -> Linker -> Input -> Additional dependencies
(translated from German, so not sure about the actual wording in the English version)
Cheers
Florian
my concern regarding 2.9 was that the pgAdmin code may be partly incompatible, but from a quick look at the mailing list, it seems that this has been addressed a long time ago, so I guess it should work.
To change the reference in VC 2010 (Express):
Properties of the "pgAdmin3" project -> Configuration properties -> Linker -> Input -> Additional dependencies
(translated from German, so not sure about the actual wording in the English version)
Cheers
Florian
Kari Karkkainen schrieb am 10.02.2013 08:12:
Hi Florian,Thanks a lot for your quick and detailed response.Yes, I followed those pgAdmin building instructions from the INSTALL file. But I struggled (including discovering that vcbuild has been replaced with msbuild with incompatible switches...) with that stuff for a couple of days and gave up, and was hoping the wxWidgets binaries+headers would be the way to go. I am getting much further with this approach but still failing at the end.I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Professional (running on 64bit Win 7); not sure if that is a problem. I have noticed that at wxWiki (http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Guide) they recommend using VC++ 2008 Express edition which, as you pointed out, is not so easy to find anymore.But as I said, currently my build fails since 'wxbase28u.lib' is not there. However, 'wxbase29u.lib' is there (because I'm using the 2.9.4 binaries, I assume), but I just don't know why the linker is looking for the 28 version and not the 29 version, and how to change this...KariK
From: Florian Klaar <flo.klaar@gmx.de>
To: Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com>
Cc: "pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:40 AM
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Problems building pgAdmin with wxWidgets binaries for WindowsHi Kari,
I assume you followed the instructions from pgadmin.org?
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgadmin3.git;a=blob;f=INSTALL;h=b8ec1a51fd877efc1be701f4ed938b92daf219fc;hb=REL-1_16_0_PATCHES
I was struggling with wxWidgets on Windows as well since the instructions didn't seem to work with my installation of VC++ 2010 Express. I'm no expert on this, but my guess is that it'll still be easier to get wxWidgets 2.8 to work than make pgAdmin compile with version 2.9.
You didn't mention which version of Visual C++ you are using, but I wanted to use the Express edition and ended up having to install both VC 2008 Express and 2010 Express to make the supplied build-wxmsw.bat work and at as well be able to open the pgAdmin solution file.
My rather clumsy and trial-and-error-driven approach was (from memory):
- Use VC 2008 Express to execute pgAdmin's supplied build-wxmsw.bat, since VC 2010 Express doesn't seem to include vcbuild.exe any more.
However, 2008's vcbuild.exe didn't recognize wxWidget's .dsp files as project files (the error message was something like "make sure the file is from VC++4 or newer bla"), so I opened all the needed .dsp files one by one in VC 2008 Express using File -> Open -> Project (NOT File -> Open -> File!). For each project file, VC asked to upgrade it, which I confirmed, causing VC to kindly generate a .vcproj file for the respective .dsp file. This is the first part of what pgAdmin's build-wxmsw.bat was supposed to do.
- Then (still in VC 2008) I executed build-wxmsw.bat again in order to build the binaries. Which worked, as far as I remember.
- Since pgAdmin's solution file is for version 2010, use VC 2010 Express to open it.
I also had to change a few of the project's include paths in order for VC to find all the needed external libraries when compiling pgAdmin, but that's no biggie. I also wasn't aware at the beginning that I had to download the binary distributions of the libraries and not the source packages. But that may be due to my general lack of experience with these things.
Took me an evening to work all this out, but at least I learned something new along the way.
Oh BTW, if you need to get VC++ 2008 Express from the web, make sure the web installer you are using does indeed download version 2008 and not 2010. Microsoft seems to have replaced the old installer with the new one in place, so many old links found on the web that are labeled "2008" actually point to the 2010 installer now. This was almost driving me nuts :-)
Hope this helps.
Florian
In VC++ we have different build targets for wx2.9 (and, VC++ 2010 is supported - I use it all the time - it's just the wxmsw build script that hasn't been updated recently).
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Wahlstedt Jyrki <jwa@wahlstedt.fi> wrote:
Hi,in configure phase (on other platforms, I haven't looked at Windows) there is a setting:--with-wx-version=2.9If you can find something similar, that might help.On 10.2.2013, at 9.12, Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com> wrote:Hi Florian,Thanks a lot for your quick and detailed response.Yes, I followed those pgAdmin building instructions from the INSTALL file. But I struggled (including discovering that vcbuild has been replaced with msbuild with incompatible switches...) with that stuff for a couple of days and gave up, and was hoping the wxWidgets binaries+headers would be the way to go. I am getting much further with this approach but still failing at the end.I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Professional (running on 64bit Win 7); not sure if that is a problem. I have noticed that at wxWiki (http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Guide) they recommend using VC++ 2008 Express edition which, as you pointed out, is not so easy to find anymore.But as I said, currently my build fails since 'wxbase28u.lib' is not there. However, 'wxbase29u.lib' is there (because I'm using the 2.9.4 binaries, I assume), but I just don't know why the linker is looking for the 28 version and not the 29 version, and how to change this...KariK!! Jyrki Wahlstedt!! Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one and perhaps will.! PGP key ID: 0x139CC386 fingerprint: F355 B46F 026C B8C1 89C0 A780 6366 EFD9 139C C386
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Hi,
Thank you all, I'm making some progress.
I think I sorted out the 2.8 vs 2.9 issue (by removing all wxWidgets 2.9 libraries from "Additional Dependencies" under the Linker configuration), but now I cannot figure out why I get a bunch of these types of linking errors: "error LINKxxx: unresolved external symbol_PQxxx"
I'm guessing these are maybe due to the PostgreSQL libbq.lib not being linked with properly - any thoughts on this?
KariK
From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Wahlstedt Jyrki <jwa@wahlstedt.fi>
Cc: Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com>; Florian Klaar <flo.klaar@gmx.de>; "pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Problems building pgAdmin with wxWidgets binaries for Windows
In VC++ we have different build targets for wx2.9 (and, VC++ 2010 is supported - I use it all the time - it's just the wxmsw build script that hasn't been updated recently).
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Wahlstedt Jyrki <jwa@wahlstedt.fi> wrote:
Hi,in configure phase (on other platforms, I haven't looked at Windows) there is a setting:--with-wx-version=2.9If you can find something similar, that might help.On 10.2.2013, at 9.12, Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com> wrote:Hi Florian,Thanks a lot for your quick and detailed response.Yes, I followed those pgAdmin building instructions from the INSTALL file. But I struggled (including discovering that vcbuild has been replaced with msbuild with incompatible switches...) with that stuff for a couple of days and gave up, and was hoping the wxWidgets binaries+headers would be the way to go. I am getting much further with this approach but still failing at the end.I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Professional (running on 64bit Win 7); not sure if that is a problem. I have noticed that at wxWiki (http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Guide) they recommend using VC++ 2008 Express edition which, as you pointed out, is not so easy to find anymore.But as I said, currently my build fails since 'wxbase28u.lib' is not there. However, 'wxbase29u.lib' is there (because I'm using the 2.9.4 binaries, I assume), but I just don't know why the linker is looking for the 28 version and not the 29 version, and how to change this...KariK!! Jyrki Wahlstedt! http://www.wahlstedt.fi/jyrki/!! Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one and perhaps will.! PGP key ID: 0x139CC386 fingerprint: F355 B46F 026C B8C1 89C0 A780 6366 EFD9 139C C386
Dave Page
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Twitter: @pgsnake
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
You shouldn't need to touch the linker config - just use the non-2.9 build targets. If you're hacking config options, you're almost certainly doing it wrong.
Unresolved PQ symbols indicate you don't have either the PostgreSQL libraries installed (I'd suggest using the EnterpriseDB installer as we know that'll work), or you don't have %PGDIR% pointing to the installation.
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,Thank you all, I'm making some progress.I think I sorted out the 2.8 vs 2.9 issue (by removing all wxWidgets 2.9 libraries from "Additional Dependencies" under the Linker configuration), but now I cannot figure out why I get a bunch of these types of linking errors: "error LINKxxx: unresolved external symbol_PQxxx"I'm guessing these are maybe due to the PostgreSQL libbq.lib not being linked with properly - any thoughts on this?KariK
From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Wahlstedt Jyrki <jwa@wahlstedt.fi>
Cc: Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com>; Florian Klaar <flo.klaar@gmx.de>; "pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Problems building pgAdmin with wxWidgets binaries for WindowsIn VC++ we have different build targets for wx2.9 (and, VC++ 2010 is supported - I use it all the time - it's just the wxmsw build script that hasn't been updated recently).On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Wahlstedt Jyrki <jwa@wahlstedt.fi> wrote:Hi,in configure phase (on other platforms, I haven't looked at Windows) there is a setting:--with-wx-version=2.9If you can find something similar, that might help.On 10.2.2013, at 9.12, Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com> wrote:Hi Florian,Thanks a lot for your quick and detailed response.Yes, I followed those pgAdmin building instructions from the INSTALL file. But I struggled (including discovering that vcbuild has been replaced with msbuild with incompatible switches...) with that stuff for a couple of days and gave up, and was hoping the wxWidgets binaries+headers would be the way to go. I am getting much further with this approach but still failing at the end.I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Professional (running on 64bit Win 7); not sure if that is a problem. I have noticed that at wxWiki (http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Guide) they recommend using VC++ 2008 Express edition which, as you pointed out, is not so easy to find anymore.But as I said, currently my build fails since 'wxbase28u.lib' is not there. However, 'wxbase29u.lib' is there (because I'm using the 2.9.4 binaries, I assume), but I just don't know why the linker is looking for the 28 version and not the 29 version, and how to change this...KariK!! Jyrki Wahlstedt!! Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one and perhaps will.! PGP key ID: 0x139CC386 fingerprint: F355 B46F 026C B8C1 89C0 A780 6366 EFD9 139C C386--
Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that I was now finally able to build pgAdmin 1.16.1 sources with wxWidgets 2.9.4 binaries using VS 2010 Professional. The issue with unresolved PQ symbols seemed to have been caused by a mismatch between 32bit and 64bit versions; I was wanting to build a 32bit pgAdmin target but had used the EnterpriseDB installer only for a 64bit PostgreSQL.
Dave, to be able to build with the pre-built wxWidgets binaries, I had to tweak the linker configuration according to these instructions:
http://wxwidgets.blogspot.fr/2012/08/how-to-use-294-wxmsw-binaries.html
KariK
From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com>
Cc: Wahlstedt Jyrki <jwa@wahlstedt.fi>; Florian Klaar <flo.klaar@gmx.de>; "pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Problems building pgAdmin with wxWidgets binaries for Windows
You shouldn't need to touch the linker config - just use the non-2.9 build targets. If you're hacking config options, you're almost certainly doing it wrong.
Unresolved PQ symbols indicate you don't have either the PostgreSQL libraries installed (I'd suggest using the EnterpriseDB installer as we know that'll work), or you don't have %PGDIR% pointing to the installation.
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,Thank you all, I'm making some progress.I think I sorted out the 2.8 vs 2.9 issue (by removing all wxWidgets 2.9 libraries from "Additional Dependencies" under the Linker configuration), but now I cannot figure out why I get a bunch of these types of linking errors: "error LINKxxx: unresolved external symbol_PQxxx"I'm guessing these are maybe due to the PostgreSQL libbq.lib not being linked with properly - any thoughts on this?KariK
From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Wahlstedt Jyrki <jwa@wahlstedt.fi>
Cc: Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com>; Florian Klaar <flo.klaar@gmx.de>; "pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Problems building pgAdmin with wxWidgets binaries for WindowsIn VC++ we have different build targets for wx2.9 (and, VC++ 2010 is supported - I use it all the time - it's just the wxmsw build script that hasn't been updated recently).On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Wahlstedt Jyrki <jwa@wahlstedt.fi> wrote:Hi,in configure phase (on other platforms, I haven't looked at Windows) there is a setting:--with-wx-version=2.9If you can find something similar, that might help.On 10.2.2013, at 9.12, Kari Karkkainen <kari_karkkainen@yahoo.com> wrote:Hi Florian,Thanks a lot for your quick and detailed response.Yes, I followed those pgAdmin building instructions from the INSTALL file. But I struggled (including discovering that vcbuild has been replaced with msbuild with incompatible switches...) with that stuff for a couple of days and gave up, and was hoping the wxWidgets binaries+headers would be the way to go. I am getting much further with this approach but still failing at the end.I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Professional (running on 64bit Win 7); not sure if that is a problem. I have noticed that at wxWiki (http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Guide) they recommend using VC++ 2008 Express edition which, as you pointed out, is not so easy to find anymore.But as I said, currently my build fails since 'wxbase28u.lib' is not there. However, 'wxbase29u.lib' is there (because I'm using the 2.9.4 binaries, I assume), but I just don't know why the linker is looking for the 28 version and not the 29 version, and how to change this...KariK!! Jyrki Wahlstedt! http://www.wahlstedt.fi/jyrki/!! Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one and perhaps will.! PGP key ID: 0x139CC386 fingerprint: F355 B46F 026C B8C1 89C0 A780 6366 EFD9 139C C386--
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