Building on debian (wx-config issues?)

[brho]

I have premake4 installed and wx-config is at /usr/bin/wx-config.

I tried premake4 gmake, and it fails with:

Searching for wx-config in these locations:
Could not find a wx-config for a debug build.
Could not find a wx-config for a release build.
Unable to find wx-config on this system.
Segmentation fault

If I pass --wx-config=/usr/bin or /usr/bin/wx-config, it doesn't help.

Is there some other premake4 invocation?

[jpd236]

(not the maintainer; just a contributor)

I'm guessing you'll need a local build of wxWidgets, but I've never tested with the built-in one. I do know that on other Linux systems, the version of premake4 that's bundled is older than the latest one (see #71). You might want to at least try on a newer version.

Beyond that, the Linux build has suffered from a bit of bitrot. I've started to work through those issues at https://github.com/jpd236/xword/tree/linux-build (see in particular the most recent commit) and have it building and running, with some issues. But more needs to be done to get it on par with Windows/Mac.