kenz-gelsoft/wxrust2

re-exploration Rust binding to wx

wxRust2

This is my 2nd exploration of binding the wxWidgets cross-platform toolkit.

This project is in the very-early stage of the development. I'm playing with this in my very limited spare time. So don't expect this project will be usable (or useful) state in the near future.

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How to use

1. Install prerequisite or Specify feature to use vendored wx binary crate
2. Specify wxrust dependency

   [dependencies]
   wx = { version = "0.0.1-alpha", package = "wxrust" }

See documentation (after crate released) or wx-core/README.md for more details.

Prerequisite

Install the wxWidgets library. Currently (not fully) supported library versions:

wx	Windows	macOS	Linux
3.2.0 Installed	Official MSVC DLL	Homebrew	Codelite repo
3.2.0 Vendored	MinGW64 Static	Universal Static	N/A
3.0.5	N/A	N/A	Ubuntu Package

Following installation method are (somewhat) tested with:

Windows

• Install prebuilt binary and set %wxwin environment variable to installed path.
  • See official instruction: https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.2.0/plat_msw_binaries.html

macOS

• Install from Homebrew like brew install wxwidgets

Linux

• Use codelite repo package
  • see: https://docs.codelite.org/wxWidgets/repo320/
• Or distro package

Use vendored wx binary crate

You can use prebuilt wx binaries without installing wxWidgets system-wide.

1. Specify --features vendored to cargo.
2. Override wxrust-config crate dependency with the following git respositry crate (or your fork of it):

   [patch.crates-io]
   wxrust-config = { git = "https://github.com/kenz-gelsoft/wxrust-vendored-config" }

   • You need to specify git or local separate repo's crate, as crates.io won't host crates with (large) binary crates such as this.

This configuration links to following per-build-target crates by default. You should be able to override this by crate name:

Build target	Crate name	Git repository	Build configuration
cfg(target_os = "macos")	wx-universal-apple-darwin	https://github.com/ancwrd1/wx-universal-apple-darwin	Lean and mean config, see repo.
x86_64-pc-windows-gnu	wx-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu	https://github.com/ancwrd1/wx-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu	Lean and mean config, see repo.
x86_64-pc-windows-msvc	wx-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc	https://github.com/kenz-gelsoft/wx-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc	Bundled wx3.2.0 official build

@ancwrd1 suggested this feature and kindly helped to support this. Thank you!

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License

MIT License. but you can (and shoudld) treat this library as wxWindows Library Licence (same with required wxWidgets library dependency).

Large part of this project is the binding generator in Python (doxybindgen). This part may be usable and want to be used for another traditional C++ APIs with Doxygen documented (c.f. like Haiku OS APIs(Kits)) in future. So permissive license is desirable.

Samples ported from wxWidgets

samples/ subdirectory contains sample codes ported from the wxWidgets Library. These sample codes are licensed under the wxWindows Library Licence.