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Louisepb at 14:40, 5 July 2024

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Louisepb: /* Configuring optional modules */

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Configuring optional modules

Louisepb: /* wxWidgets */

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wxWidgets

Louisepb: /* Windows (Microsoft Visual Studio C++, recommended method) */

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Windows (Microsoft Visual Studio C++, recommended method)

Louisepb: /* wxWidgets */

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wxWidgets

Louisepb: /* OpenCascade */

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OpenCascade

Louisepb: /* Python */

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Python

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Louisepb: /* SWIG */

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SWIG

Louisepb at 12:42, 6 September 2023

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		+	These [http://texgen.sourceforge.net/documents/HowToBuildTexGen.pdf slides] give a walkthrough of how to compile TexGen and its modules. If you are unfamiliar with building software such as this they may be easier to follow than the instructions below.
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	In order to compile TexGen and '''all''' of its modules, the following software is required:		In order to compile TexGen and '''all''' of its modules, the following software is required:

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 '''SWIG_EXECUTABLE''' - Same as root directory followed by 'swig.exe'
-'''wxWidgets_ROOT_DIR''' - Location where you install wxWidgets. e.g. 'C:/wxWidgets-3.0.4'.
+'''wxWidgets_ROOT_DIR''' - Location where you install wxWidgets. e.g. 'C:/wxWidgets-3.2.5'.
 '''wxWidgets_LIB_DIR''' - Location where the wxWidgets libraries were compiled to, should be the same as the root directory followed by 'lib/vc_lib' or 'lib/vc_x64_lib' for 64-bit builds.

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 ==== wxWidgets ====
-[http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/ Download] and install the windows version 3.0.5 of wxWidgets (wxMSW). It is then necessary to compile wxWidgets from source, detailed instructions on how to do this can be found in 'install.txt' located in the 'docs\msw' subfolder. The main steps are to open 'wx.dsw' with MSVC located in the 'build\msw' subfolder and compile both Release and Debug configurations (The configuration can be selected from the drop down box on the main toolbar in Visual Studio. Universal and DLL versions need not be compiled).
+[http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/ Download] and install the windows version 3.2.5 of wxWidgets (wxMSW). It is then necessary to compile wxWidgets from source. Detailed instructions on how to do this can be found in 'install.txt' located in the 'docs\msw' subfolder. The main steps are to open 'wx_vcN.sln' with MS Visual Studio (where N is the appropriate version) located in the 'build\msw' subfolder and compile both Release and Debug configurations (The configuration can be selected from the drop down box on the main toolbar in Visual Studio. Universal and DLL versions need not be compiled).
 ==== CppUnit ====

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 == Windows (Microsoft Visual Studio C++, recommended method) ==
 === Prerequisites ===
 It is assumed that Microsoft Visual Studio is already installed.  If it isn't and you plan to use it, then install it.  It may be possible to use the free [http://www.microsoft.com/express/ Visual Studio Express]; if anyone tries this and finds out one way or the other, please post the information either here or in the [http://texgen.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/index.php forum]. Brief instructions on how to install the various 3rd party libraries under windows are given below. Note that you do not need to install all of these in order to perform the minimal build. Only CMake is absolutely required.

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 ==== wxWidgets ====
-[http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/ Download] and install the windows version 3.0.4 of wxWidgets (wxMSW). It is then necessary to compile wxWidgets from source, detailed instructions on how to do this can be found in 'install.txt' located in the 'docs\msw' subfolder. The main steps are to open 'wx.dsw' with MSVC located in the 'build\msw' subfolder and compile both Release and Debug configurations (The configuration can be selected from the drop down box on the main toolbar in Visual Studio. Universal and DLL versions need not be compiled).
+[http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/ Download] and install the windows version 3.0.5 of wxWidgets (wxMSW). It is then necessary to compile wxWidgets from source, detailed instructions on how to do this can be found in 'install.txt' located in the 'docs\msw' subfolder. The main steps are to open 'wx.dsw' with MSVC located in the 'build\msw' subfolder and compile both Release and Debug configurations (The configuration can be selected from the drop down box on the main toolbar in Visual Studio. Universal and DLL versions need not be compiled).
 ==== CppUnit ====

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 ==== OpenCascade ====
-[http://www.opencascade.org/getocc/download/ Download OpenCascade] and install; this extracts the files to a directory. If the installation doesn't start automatically, run the 'install.bat' file located the directory where the files where extracted (read 'readme.htm' file in the same directory for more information).  Choose 'complete installation' and tick the box to set the environment variables.  The current version of TexGen is built with OpenCascade version 7.0.0.
+[https://dev.opencascade.org/release Download OpenCascade] and install; this extracts the files to a directory. If the installation doesn't start automatically, run the 'install.bat' file located the directory where the files where extracted (read 'readme.htm' file in the same directory for more information).  Choose 'complete installation' and tick the box to set the environment variables.  The current version of TexGen is built with OpenCascade version 7.0.0.
 ==== VTK ====

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 ==== Python ====
-[http://www.python.org/ Download Python] and install.  Note that TexGen version 3.13 is built with Python 3.9. Vesrions prior to that were built with Python 2.7.
+[http://www.python.org/ Download Python] and install.  Note that TexGen version 3.13 is built with Python 3.9. Versions prior to that were built with Python 2.7.
 For a Release build the include files and python39.lib provided with the standard installation can be used.

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 ==== Python ====
-[http://www.python.org/ Download Python] and install.  Note that TexGen is currently built with Python 2.7.
+[http://www.python.org/ Download Python] and install.  Note that TexGen version 3.13 is built with Python 3.9. Vesrions prior to that were built with Python 2.7.
-For a Release build the include files and python27.lib provided with the standard installation can be used.
+For a Release build the include files and python39.lib provided with the standard installation can be used.
-For a Debug build it is necessary to build a debug version of Python. Download the latest [https://www.python.org/downloads/source/ source release] and follow the instructions in the README for building for your environment. For Visual Studio use the VS solution in the PCBuild folder.
+For a Debug build it is necessary to build a debug version of Python. Download the latest [https://www.python.org/downloads/source/ source release] and follow the instructions in the README for building for your environment. For Visual Studio use the VS solution in the PCBuild folder. Version 3.13 was built with Python 3.9.9.
 Note that for newer VS versions it is necessary to apply this [https://github.com/python-cmake-buildsystem/python-cmake-buildsystem/issues/161 patch] in order for the build to be successful.

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 ==== SWIG ====
-[http://www.swig.org/ Download] version 4.0.0 of the windows .zip files and extract to a suitable location (e.g. c:\Program Files\swigwin-4.0.0).
+[http://www.swig.org/ Download] the windows .zip files and extract to a suitable location (e.g. c:\Program Files\swigwin-4.0.2).  The current version of TexGen is built with version 4.0.2
 ==== Python ====

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 === Prerequisites ===
 It is assumed that Microsoft Visual Studio is already installed.  If it isn't and you plan to use it, then install it.  It may be possible to use the free [http://www.microsoft.com/express/ Visual Studio Express]; if anyone tries this and finds out one way or the other, please post the information either here or in the [http://texgen.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/index.php forum]. Brief instructions on how to install the various 3rd party libraries under windows are given below. Note that you do not need to install all of these in order to perform the minimal build. Only CMake is absolutely required.
-TexGen 3.11.0 was built with VS2017. All of the libraries used can be built with this version of Visual Studio.
 ==== CMake ====