wxWidgets Intall: Access Denied?

[IWishIKnew]

I keep getting an access denied message from wxWidgets... I don't understand why it is saying that; it is run in admin mode.

I successfully installed the library with default settings, but after some research, I found that I prefered different settings.

The command: mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc BUILD=debug UNICODE=1 SHARED=0

And then it sits on this forever...

The Error Message:

if exist ..\..\lib\gcc_lib\Release\libwxmsw28ud_richtext.a del ..\..\lib\gcc_lib
\Release\libwxmsw28ud_richtext.a
ar rcu ..\..\lib\gcc_lib\Release\libwxmsw28ud_richtext.a gcc_mswud\Release\richt
extlib_dummy.o gcc_mswud\Release\richtextlib_richtextctrl.o gcc_mswud\Release\ri
chtextlib_richtextbuffer.o gcc_mswud\Release\richtextlib_richtextstyles.o gcc_ms
wud\Release\richtextlib_richtextxml.o gcc_mswud\Release\richtextlib_richtexthtml
.o gcc_mswud\Release\richtextlib_richtextformatdlg.o gcc_mswud\Release\richtextl
ib_richtextsymboldlg.o gcc_mswud\Release\richtextlib_richtextstyledlg.o gcc_mswu
d\Release\richtextlib_richtextprint.o
ranlib ..\..\lib\gcc_lib\Release\libwxmsw28ud_richtext.a
mingw32-make: *** Access is denied.
.  Stop.
mingw32-make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

The way I understand it, if it is being run with administrative privelidges, this shouldn't happen, but it is...

I modified the makefile to create a folder for the object/lib files, so I could recognize where they were installed.

\Release

This worked when I used the default settings, aka: shared=1, debug=1, unicode=1.

Thank you for your help in advance!

[heepoo]

open the wxWidgets\build\msw and edit config.gcc for your settings
then type this in your command line:
mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc

i recommend to use wxWidgets 2.9 instead of 2.8
because it has a lot of bug fixes and many features.
and for compilation, you have to have administrator writes

[norm b]

Is there a reason you are not using the provided configure script?

I'm not a Windows guy, but on Linux I would run the following in the wxWidgets root directory:

./configure --libdir=\path\to\release --enable-debug --enable-unicode

Run "configure -help" to see all options.

Also, since you have built before I would run "make clean".

Then run make.

HTH

[heepoo]

i recommend to build withoutt debugging information
what type of username do you have on your computer? admin or limited!

[IWishIKnew]

...

If you're familiar with windows... you have to run somthing that modifies restricted files (like system/program files, or in this case, mabey a few global variable defines) in administrative mode, which I did.

norm b said:

Is there a reason you are not using the provided configure script?

Yes: Because I'm not running Linux, I'm using windows, and on windows, you use the make executable that comes with MinGW. The executable is called "mingw32-make.exe". It, along with all of the other components of the compiler, can be run through a command prompt which is based in the mingw directory. Note: I'm using Nuwen's distro, so it is nice... :)

About the "clean" comment, I cleaned it out after every attempt. Mind you, I'm not a newb at this. I did successfully build this thing once before, and the only difference between this one and the first is the settings.

EDIT1:

I am going to try somthing:

retry building without cleaning it. If it is a memory problem or somthing, hopfully it will be resolved, and because of the way the compiler works, it should just continue (theoretically)...

[norm b]

Not trying to be argumentative, but you can use configure scripts in Windows with MinGW. From the wxWidgets file INSTALL-MSW.txt :

Both Cygwin and MinGW can be used with configure (assuming you have MSYS installed in case of MinGW).

Since you are using nuwen's MinGW distro, from http://nuwen.net/mingw.html (just above the History table): http://nuwen.net/files/mingw/msys-10.4.7z

[IWishIKnew]

norm b said

you can use configure scripts in Windows with MinGW.

Only if you installed MinGW with MSYS. I did not do that. Note that it also says you can use command prompt as well.

Also, I think you misunderstand me. I know how to call one of the compiler's components from the command line...

[naraku9333]

The file could be locked by another process or maybe anti-virus is blocking. Try temporarily disabling your AV and check task manager for anything that could be locking the file.