cannot compile wxwidgets project on mac OSX mavericks

Question

I'm working on porting across an application to the MAC OSX (Mavericks). I have installed wxWidgets and the following two commands successfully return output from the terminal.

wx-config --libs

Gives the following output.

-L/usr/local/lib   -framework IOKit -framework Carbon -framework Cocoa -framework AudioToolbox -framework System -framework OpenGL /usr/local/lib/libwx_osx_cocoau-3.0.a -framework WebKit -lwxregexu-3.0 -lwxtiff-3.0 -lwxjpeg-3.0 -lwxpng-3.0 -lz -lpthread -liconv 

and

wx-config --cxxflags

Gives the following output.

-I/usr/local/lib/wx/include/osx_cocoa-unicode-static-3.0 -I/usr/local/include/wx-3.0 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__WXMAC__ -D__WXOSX__ -D__WXOSX_COCOA__ 

However, I tried to compile a basic wxWigets project using code blocks and netbeans. I followed numerous tutorials, but every time I build my project I get the following compile error.

"fatal error: 'wx/setup.h' file not found

I have added the following settings to the code blocks (and tried netbeans) IDE:

• Compiler Settings -> Other options == wx-config --cxxflags

• Linker Settings -> Other linker settings == wx-config --libs

but I just can't get my widgets project to build :(

can anyone please help

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I see only two possible explanations:

1. You didn't install wxWidgets using make install , ie there is no actual wx/setup.h under the directory output by your wx-config --cxxflags .
2. Your IDE doesn't run commands in its settings (BTW, I assume you did put wx-config --cxxflags inside the backticks). In this case you need to copy and paste the actual output instead of using wx-config directly.