CELayout Editor - Getting Started / Building

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Written for CEGUI 0.6

Works with versions 0.6.x (obsolete)

Contents

Abstract

This page tries to get you up and running with the layout editor. It will explain both the use of a distribution, and downloading from SVN. If you have problems, don't hesitate to visit the forums. And besides, you may alter this page with any information you think will be helpful to future readers of this page. Some parts might be a little too verbose, but better safe then sorry ;-) If you're done reading, don't forget to read the manual.

Using a distribution

This is the recommended way. The distributions are stable and compatible with official CEGUI library releases. For example the 0.4.1 editor will work fine ("proven") with the 0.4.1 CEGUI release. Visit the download page for Windows installer(s) and Linux source distribution(s). Before installing a new version, it is recommeded that you uninstall a previous version first, because files might get removed in newer versions and such. On windows you can stop reading now. Linux and/or SVN users must read on for a bit more.

Compiling yourself

If you are a non-windows user, or prefer SVN access over distributions, you must follow the steps mentioned in this topic.

Setup CEGUI

Please see the CEGUI download info for downloading and compiling the cegui library.

Compile WxWidgets

This topic explains how to get and setup this cross-platform application framework.

Distributions for many platforms can be found here.

On Windows

Recommended: WxWidgets (2.8.11)

In the function wxString wxStandardPaths::GetAppDir() ( starting at line 249 ) delete the lines 253 - 263 which should be equal to the following code snippet: 

// allow running the apps directly from build directory in debug builds
#ifdef __WXDEBUG__
    wxString lastdir;
    if ( fn.GetDirCount() )
    {
        lastdir = fn.GetDirs().Last();
        lastdir.MakeLower();
        if ( lastdir.Matches(_T("debug*")) || lastdir.Matches(_T("vc_msw*")) )
            fn.RemoveLastDir();
    }
#endif // __WXDEBUG__

Deleting those lines will fix a bug leading to inconsistency between debug and release and allows you to load the splash screen png-file directly from the debug directory, same as it is the case for release. Otherwise, for the debug configuration the splash screen will be loaded from the bin directory (one level above).

WxWidgets (2.9.0)

WxWidgets (2.8.3 - 2.8.10)

WxWidgets (2.6.4)

Note: I (scriptkid) always use the regular 'unicode debug' and 'unicode release' builds. But i assume that the DLLs will work fine too. If it hasn't been done so already, add 'include/msvc' and include to the include build paths and 'lib/vc_lib' to the library paths in Visual Studio.

WxWidgets (less than 2.6.4)

Because of issues I had compiling wxWidgets properly, I'm going to go into more depth for using Visual Studio 7.1 or 8.0 to do so. (Jouninkomiko 05-20-2006)


NOTE: Another Windows specific step-by-step guide was posted in the forums by fjeronimo and can be read here: http://www.cegui.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2760

On Linux

Setup the editor

This topic explains how to get and setup the editor from sources.

Checkout

If you use a non-command line utility such as TortoiseSVN, you can choose one of these URLs to respectively checkout the HEAD or one of the stable branches. 

https://crayzedsgui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crayzedsgui/CELayoutEditor/trunk
https://crayzedsgui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crayzedsgui/CELayoutEditor/branches/v-0-4-1
https://crayzedsgui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crayzedsgui/CELayoutEditor/branches/before_wxwidgets

Or, from the command line (same order): 

svn co https://crayzedsgui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crayzedsgui/CELayoutEditor/trunk MyEditorFolder
svn co https://crayzedsgui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crayzedsgui/CELayoutEditor/branches/v-0-4-1 MyEditorFolder
svn co https://crayzedsgui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crayzedsgui/CELayoutEditor/branches/before_wxwidgets MyEditorFolder

Retreiving is always "anonymous", so it should work immediately.

Compile

On windows:

On Linux:

Hopefully, we will have a mac-compatible project or makefile in the future as well, so watch this space! :-)


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