Platforms supported by wxWindows 2.4
Author: Vadim Zeitlin

Supported Platforms

You will find below the list of all supported platforms for different ports of wxWindows 2.x (wxMSW/wxGTK/wxMotif ports only). The cross icon in the third column doesn't always mean that the platform is not supported, but may just wxWindows hasn't been tested on it recently (the table is being updated for wxWindows 2.5.1 currently).

See also:

- daily rebuilds page for some of the platforms mentioned below;
- the list of support classes in each platform;
- the wxEmbedded page which describes embedded platforms supported or in progress.

If you have tested wxWindows on a platform not mentioned here, please tell us about your experience on our mailing list! We would especially like to have information about compiling wxGTK on other Unix variants, such as IRIX, DG-UX, other flavours of BSD, ... Please note that you will generally need GNU make (also known as `gmake`) to compile wxWindows, native make programs often don't work.

wxWindows 2 Platforms
Platform | Compiler | Status | Tested by | Remarks
Win32 (Win 9x/NT/2K) | Visual C++ 4.2/5.x/6.0 |  | VZ, JS | Project files are provided for all versions except 4.2
Borland C++ 5.0 |  |  | Also works with free command line Borland C++ 5.5
Mingw32 |  | GRG, VZ | Cross compilation from Linux works as well Version 2.95.2 recommended, otherwise some (included) patches must be applied Memory debugging code doesn't seem to work well
Cygwin |  | Stephane Junique Andrea Venturoli | tested under NT 4, cross-compiling for mingw also works
Watcom C++ 10 |  | JS | Tested with 10.6: works, but wxImage seems to be broken no support for JPEG, TIFF or OpenGL
Watcom C++ 11 |  | Markus Neifer | Tested with 11.0b under win95
Open Watcom 1.0 |  | Chris Elliott | Tested with 1.0 under W2K(?)
Digital Mars (was Symantec C++) |  | Chris Elliott | Tested with 8.34beta
Win64 (Windows XP/2003) | Visual C++ 7.1 |  |  | Some minor corrections not done yet but will be in time for 2.6.0...
Win16 (Windows 3.1) | Visual C++ 1.52 |  |  | Some features are missing (OLE related classes, threads, ...) Borland C++ can't cope with ODBC, resources and new wxGrid class. Last working version is wxWindows 2.2.7, support for Win16 has been abandoned in 2.4.x. and all traces of Win16 code were removed after cvs BEFORE_WIN16_REMOVAL tag
Borland C++ 4.0/5.0 |  | JS
Linux x86 | wxGTK with gcc 2.7.2 |  |  | Might work, but nobody uses it any more
wxGTK with gcc 2.95--3.3 |  | VZ, RR |
wxMotif |  |  | with LessTif 0.87
wxMotif |  |  | with OpenMotif
| All BSD systems tests are for wxGTK using gcc.
FreeBSD | all versions between 3.2 and 5.1 x86 |  | VZ |
NetBSD | 1.6, Alpha |  | VZ |
OpenBSD | 3.1, Alpha |  | VZ | Some problems with shared libraries, ok with static ones
Solaris | wxMotif with Sun CC 4.2 |  | VZ | Thread support must be disabled on system with not MT-safe X11
wxMotif with gcc |  |  |
wxGTK with Sun CC 4.2 |  |  |
wxGTK with gcc |  |  |
wxGTK with Sun CC 5.0 and 6.1 (Solaris 7 and 8) |  | Jiri Mracek | You have to edit line 2079 in glib.h to fix GTK+ error
wxGTK 2.5.1 with Sun CC 6.2 (Solaris 6 and 8) |  | Carl Godkin | Using GNU make
AIX | wxGTK 2.2.9 with gcc 3.0.4 |  | Ian Brown | Shared library building doesn't work, use `--disable-shared`
wxGTK 2.3.3 with xlC (AIX 4.3.2) |  | Irvin Probst | Both static and shared wxGTK libraries work, but only with static GTK+ and GLib
wxMotif with xlC 3.1.4.0 (AIX 4.2) |  | Bernhard Eck | Some problems with OpenGL and native X server
wxX11 2.4.2 with xlC 6 (AIX 5.1) |  | Swengtoo | In 2.4.2 you need to remove parentheses from the configure line containing AIX_CXX_LD; you should also use GNU make
HP-UX
HP-UX 10.20 wxGTK with HP CC A.10.22 or HP aCC B3910B A.01.18 |  | Staf Verhaegen | you need to add `-Aa -D_HPUX_SOURCE` to `CFLAGS`
HP-UX 10.20 wxGTK with gcc |  | Julian Albo Garcia |
HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC, wxMotif 2.5.4, tried aCC A.03.57 and g++ 3.4.2 |  | Ian, Mike | For a 32-bit PA-RISC build, if you want to use `SHLIB_PATH` to make it easier to use wxWidgets without installing it, then add `LDFLAGS=-Wl,+s` If you want to compile the test suite then aCC A.03.57 requires `CXX='aCC -AA'` aCC can also be used as the C compiler instead of cc by adding `CC='aCC -Ae'`
HP-UX 11i v2 IA64, wxMotif 2.5.4, aCC A.06.00 |  | Mike |
IRIX
Note that all entries use MIPSPro 7.3 compiler on IRIX 6.5 with `-mips3 -n32` flags if not mentioned otherwise. Also note that you need to set `LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH` under IRIX to run wxWindows programs.
wxGTK 2.2 |  | Ian | You may need to use `--disable-catch_segvs` if you get compiler error in utilsunx.cpp
wxGTK 2.5 |  | Carl Godkin |
wxMotif |  | David Marshall | On IRIX 6.5.6 (Indigo2, 64bit), with SGI Motif 1.2
| Ian |
SCO UnixWare | wxGTK with gcc |  | William Suetholz | UnixWare 2.1.3 with UnixWare 7 compatibility PTF
DEC OSF/1 | wxGTK with gcc |  | Fabrice Didierjean | OSF1 4.0 on Dec Alpha you may need to run configure with `--host=alpha-dec-osf switch`
OS/2
wxOS2-2.4.x with VAC++ 3.0 |  | DW | Support for this out-dated compiler has been given up for 2.5
wxOS2 with EMX |  | SN |
wxOS2 with EMX+gcc 3.2.1 |  | Dave Parsons |
Innotek gcc 3.2.2 |  | DW | This compilers uses an object format incompatible with current X11 libraries, so forget about wxGTK/wxMotif/wxX11. CVS now supports building wxOS2, but linking does not yet work OOTB.
Open Watcom 1.0/1.1 |  |  | Again, object format is incompatible with X11 libs, so forget about wxGTK/wxMotif/wxX11. We would need somebody having enough time to dig into the build system and find out how to adapt OpenWatcom's makefiles (or rather bakefiles) for Windows to OS/2.
wxGTK with EMX |  | SN |
wxMotif with EMX |  | SN | with LessTif 0.89
wxX11 with EMX |  | SN |
wxGTK with EMX+gcc 3.2.1 |  |  |
wxMotif with EMX+gcc 3.2.1 |  |  | with LessTif 0.89
wxX11 with EMX+gcc 3.2.1 |  |  |
OpenVMS | wxGTK with Compaq-C++ V6.2 (OpenVMS Alpha 7.3) |  | Jouk Jansen |
Linux S/390 | wxGTK with gcc 2.95.2 |  | VZ | 2.3.1+ only
Mac OS
wxMac CFM (OS 8.6+) |  | SC | with Metrowerks CodeWarrior 8.3
wxMac Mach-O (OS X) |  | SC | CodeWarrior or Apple DevTools (gcc)
wxCocoa (OS X) |  | DE | Apple DevTools (gcc)

Contact Vadim Zeitlin with any comments/suggestions.