Installing wxWidgets on Debian based linux

Debian based linux like ubuntu and linux mint can use these steps to install wxWidgets.

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

If we do not have a C++ compiler yet, we install the build-essential package.

I think this is an meta package that install the actual packages for programming task.

$ sudo apt-get install libwxgtk3.0-dev

This installs the wxWidgets package.

To test it with minimal console application that emit some text we will create console.cpp and compile it.

#include <wx/wx.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
wxPuts(wxT(“A wxWidgets console application”));
}

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wxWidgets Tutorial

wxWidgets is a cross platform toolkit or framework for creating C++ GUI applications.

http://zetcode.com/gui/wxwidgets/