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2 DWT-Win
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3 =======
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5 Requirements:
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6 =============
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7 tango from SVN trunk rev 3152
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8 dsss 0.75
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9 DMD 1.025 (don't use 1.026, which has a problem with tango)
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10 Import libs
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12 Import libs:
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13 ============
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14 To link everything you need the import libs.
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15 They are not included in the source repository, please use this archive
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17 http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/dwt-linux/dwt-win-libs.zip
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19 They don't contain any DWT code, only the import libraries to link to the windows system DLLs.
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22 Building with dsss
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23 ===================
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24 Per default dsss has the option 'oneatatime' enable.
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25 This make dsss to compile one file at a time and building dwt take longer than 15 min.
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26 Disable this option in the dsss/etc/rebuild/dmd-win-tango file.
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27 Search for it (2 matches) and either delete those lines of change =on to =off.
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29 In some situations, you may get linker errors when building the dwt examples.
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30 Try adding the "-full" switch to the dsss command line to fix these errors.
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32 Example:
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34 dsss build -full simple
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36 Subsystem linker option
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37 =======================
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38 For dmd linker 'optlink' there is the option SUBSYSTEM which defines if the executable
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39 shall be a console or windows application and the minimum required windows version (4=win95,5=win2000,6=vista)
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40 -L/SUBSYSTEM:windows:5
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41 Without this option, DWT renderes some controls not correctly. Eg. table headers are not shown.
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43 Changes/Additions to SWT
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45 o MessageBox can be instantiated without parent. Use the Ctor "this( int style )",
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46 calling the other ctors will still force a non-null parent.
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