wxSmith - "wchar_t must be available"

[tonyhibbert420]

Firstly apologies if this is in the wrong forum.

I have some experience in C++ but I am brand new to trying to make a wxSmith GUI.

I followed some instructions on the internet on how to set it up, so I have;

Installed wxSmith
Set up a project on codeblocks

I tried to build it once it was done, as per the instructions, but I got a wx/setup.h needs to be included message. I found this to be a very common problem and so I found the solution on the internet.

However, now when I build the program I get the following error;

mingw32-g++.exe -pipe -mthreads -D__GNUWIN32__ -D__WXMSW__ -Wall -g -D__WXDEBUG__ -std=c++11 -IC:\wxWidgets-3.1.0\include -I\mswd -IC:\Code_Goes_Here\nearlyobsolete -c C:\Code_Goes_Here\nearlyobsolete\nearlyobsoleteApp.cpp -o obj\Debug\nearlyobsoleteApp.o
In file included from C:\wxWidgets-3.1.0\include/wx/debug.h:17:0,
from C:\wxWidgets-3.1.0\include/wx/defs.h:743,
from C:\wxWidgets-3.1.0\include/wx/event.h:14,
from C:\wxWidgets-3.1.0\include/wx/app.h:19,
from C:\Code_Goes_Here\nearlyobsolete\nearlyobsoleteApp.h:13,
from C:\Code_Goes_Here\nearlyobsolete\nearlyobsoleteApp.cpp:10:
C:\wxWidgets-3.1.0\include/wx/chartype.h:37:6: error: #error "wchar_t must be available"
#error "wchar_t must be available"

I have looked to the internet for answers but couldnt find anything useful so I have signed up and posted a question here!

I am using a dell laptop with windows 10. I have codeblocks 16.01 and wxSmith 3.1.0

Thanks in advance

Tony

[wizebin]

What compiler are you using? MinGW?

Is this your first project with wxwidgets as well? Did you compile it from source or use an existing installation? I had to use compile wxwidgets for mingw before I could use it at all.

wchar_t is a wide character type, in windows I believe it's defined as a 16bit(?) type- it is used in the wstring implementation that I think wxwidgets uses for its wxString type (it's been a while since I spent any time in the wxwidgets source) it's odd that wchar_t wouldn't be available, I don't remember if there is a prerequisite include (like windows.h) to make that available under windows subsystems, but we should explore that once these other questions are answered.

[tonyhibbert420]

Yer I am using MinGW, i'm all pretty new to this but I think I have downloaded it and installed it correctly.

This is the first project I am doing so I guess I am compiling from source. Thanks for your help wizebin