I have recently downloaded wxWidgets (installed from source but I don't think that is the problem) and I cannot figure out how to build the samples provided on linux. From what I can tell all the makefiles given are for windows machines and from the few things I have found online just say to run make in the directory but that just leaves me with a
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
I have no idea how to build them. The particular samples I am trying to build can be found here: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/WX_3_0_BRANCH/samples/minimal
and I am using wxwidgets version: 3.0.5, Ubuntu: 20.04 ,if any other information is needed please just ask
Not too sure if I'm just missing something for what, any help would be great, thanks
EDIT: I have tried to build them also using make -f makefile.gcc and get this error:
if not exist gcc_mswud mkdir gcc_mswud
make: -c: Command not found
make: [makefile.gcc:219: gcc_mswud] Error 127 (ignored)
windres --use-temp-file -i../../samples/sample.rc -ogcc_mswud\minimal_sample_rc.o --define __WXMSW__ --define _UNICODE --include-dir .\..\..\lib\gcc_lib\mswud --include-dir ./../../include --include-dir . --include-dir ./../../samples --define NOPCH
make: -c: Command not found
make: *** [makefile.gcc:234: gcc_mswud\minimal_sample_rc.o] Error 127
but from what I can gather this is because that makefile is meant for windows machines
You need to run the configure script to generate the make files for your system. There is a good article on this on the wiki. The configure script will produce make files for both the library and the samples.
On linux, this 2 step configure/make process is quite common for building libraries and programs.