Developer Environment Installation

All the OpenMAIA code is written using GCC 3.X and wxWidget Library. wxWidget is an opensource C++ GUI framework to make cross-platform programming.
The source code was developed and tested under GNU/Linux and then compiled under Windows using cygwin

Following are the instructions to install some of the tools and libraries used to build OpenMAIA code.

Step 1, Install CygWin (only for Windows developers)
Step2, Install Libraries

Step1, Install CygWin (only for Windows Developers)

Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.
We compiled OpenMAIA Windows version using CygWin under Windows XP system. To install CygWin you can download it at www.cygwin.com ad install freely on your computer.

When you start the installation program you reach package selectction panel.

To compile OpenMAIA suite you have to select following pakages as well as the default ones:

autoconf
automake
bison (used bu wxWidgets)
gcc
gcc-g++
libiconv
libtool
libxml2
libxslt

After installation is completed you have a bash that can be used to perform the other tasks described.

Install Libraries

To compile the OpenMAIA code you need some libraries that sometimes are not included with some standard Un*x distributions. On Un*x systems you need to install. Following libraries can be installed from source or from your GNU/Linux distribution systems using standard options. We developed the system using Gentoo (www.gentoo.org) and Debian (www.debian.org) distributions.

X11 runtime and developement library (www.xfree.org)
GTK 1.2 runtime and developement library (www.gtk.org)
libxml2 runtime and developement librariy (xmlsoft.org

WxWidget library must be compiled using following insructions.

Compile wxWidgets library

Download wxWidgets ver. 2.4.2 www.wxwidgets.org.
Download GTK+ version for Un*x and Windows version for Windows

Decompress the tarball in a folder

$ tar zxvf wxGTK-2.4.2.tar.gz (GTK version)

unzip wxMSW-2.4.2.zip (Win version)

Run configure script:

$ ./configure --enable-wave --enable-threads --enable-debug_info --enable-xpm

Under windows add the option

--disable shared

Compile and install the library

$ make
$ su
(give root password)
# make install
#ldconfig

Compire Wx XRC library
ALTERT!: To correctly compile wxXRC lib on cygwin environment wxWidgets MUST be compiled as static library (--disable-shared) option
```
$ cd contrib/src/xrc
$ make
$ su
(give root password)
# make install
# ldconfig
```
ALERT!: Our configure script is buggy and cannot test the presence of the wxXRC library. To compile OpenMAIA source you need to make a symbolic link to the wxXRC library in your install path.
This link will be called:
- /usr/local/lib/libwx_gtk_xrc-2.4.so on Un*x systems
- /usr/local/lib/libwx_msw_xrc-2.4.a on Windows systems

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