Test: wxWidgets3.1 3.1.5-2

[Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty]

On 03/02/2026 19:24, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 25/03/2025 16:46, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-announce wrote:
>> Version 3.1.5-2 of "wxWidgets3.1" has been uploaded as a test package.
>>
>> wxWidgets3.1 is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for GTK written in C++.
>>
> [..]
>>
>> This update brings wxWidgets 3.1, while keeping the old wxWidgets3.0 
>> package for compatibility.
>
> Belated thanks for this update!
Cheers!
>
>> The git repository at
>> https://cygwin.org/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/ 
>> wxWidgets3.1.git;a=summary
>> has also been updated.
>>
>> There are quite a lot of changes here, and I will be testing manually,
>> so I would very much like feedback if anyone finds any problems with
>> these packages. I will mark them as stable in a few weeks if no issues
>
> I took (another) look at updating poedit wich uses wxWidgets (and 
> needs rebuilding or removing as it's the only thing holding an ancient 
> version of boost in the distro).
>
> I thought I'd try with wxWidgets 3.1, to see if that helps with other 
> problems.
>
> First off, configure fails.  This seems to be due to:
>
>> $ wx-config-3.1 --cflags
>> -I/usr/local/lib/wx/include/gtk3-unicode-3.1 
>> -I/usr/local/include/wx-3.1 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DWXUSINGDLL 
>> -D__WXGTK__
>
> I'm not sure how 'local' got in there, but I don't think that's right!
No, I wasn't sure either, hence I never promoted this to stable. I've 
since realised I need extra configure options, but it doesn't build any 
more, sadly. See my "help wanted" messages to the list for more details 
if you like. I'll give it another go at some point. Unfortunately I 
don't think I really have the time or skill to sort out the compilation 
issues.
>
> Secondly, wxUSE_FSWATCHER doesn't seem to get defined.
>
> Not sure if that's expected? Using the windows backend for 
> filewatching probably requires some extra work with file conversions, 
> but the generic polling backend should be usable?
I think this might have something to do with sys/epoll.h being missing, 
if memory serves. I think that might simply be something that's not 
available on Cygwin, I'm not sure.
>
> Then I run into some wchar_t/wxstring conversion issues which I'm not 
> sure should be happening in a unicode build, but seem fixable...
>
> (You can see where I got to at 
> https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/poedit/tree/?h=playground, if 
> you're interested)
>
I wonder if a build of wxWIdgets 3.2 might fix the problem. I shall give 
that a go. Unfortunately due to the stack watcher being unsupported on 
Cygwin (IIRC), newer versions of wxPython may be a no-go.
>> are reported and I find no problems myself. The doc package may be 
>> incomplete as doxygen kept hanging while generating the documents. If 
>> anyone can shed any light on why that's started to happen, that would 
>> also be great.
>  I think Takashi finally managed to squash the bug underlying hang 
> problems with doxygen, so hopefully this now works! 
Excellent, I shall test that.