Adding a permanent path in Linux Mint

[EwCjE3v7]

Wanted to add PATH=$PATH:/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx but don't know how. Any help?

I've tried making a ~/.bashrc file but no luck. Any help?

[koothkeeper]

I assume you are using bash? The .bashrc file should do it. Are there any other calls to other utilities or programs after the PATH=${PATH}:/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx statement that could be resetting your path?

[EwCjE3v7]

When I type is $PATH I get the following output

$PATH
bash: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/include/wx-3.0-unofficial: No such file or directory

And when I try to run a program with a wx file, it says it cannot be found

#include <wx/wxprec>

[koothkeeper]

To view the contents of a variable, you can use the echo command:

echo $PATH

Notice that at the end of your path, you see "No such file or directory". That's because your shell interpreted what you typed ($PATH) as a command.

BTW: You have several duplicates in your PATH string.

What program are you trying to run? What is the exact error message?

[EwCjE3v7]

http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/overview_helloworld.html

Thats the program I'm trying to run.

Testing.cpp:3:23: fatal error: wx/wxprec.h: No such file or directory
 #include <wx/wxprec.h>
                       ^
compilation terminated.

And thats the eror I get when compiling with g++.

How would I also remove the duplicates?

[keskiverto]

The compiler does not look header files from the PATH. This is not a path issue at all.

You are a bit inconsistent, because you mention two different directories:

/usr/include/wx-3.0-unofficial
/usr/include/wx-2.8

Did you install the wx with Mint's package manager? I would expect a managed package to add itself to compiler's default include locations.

If not, GCC has the -I option.

[EwCjE3v7]

After compiling the program with the following

g++ Testing.cpp -o t -std=c++11 -I /usr/include/wx-3.0-unofficial/

And the output is

In file included from /usr/include/wx-3.0-unofficial/wx/defs.h:27:0,
                 from /usr/include/wx-3.0-unofficial/wx/wxprec.h:12,
                 from Testing.cpp:3:
/usr/include/wx-3.0-unofficial/wx/platform.h:183:22: fatal error: wx/setup.h: No such file or directory
 #include "wx/setup.h"
                      ^
compilation terminated.

wxprec includes setup.h but it can't find that.

Thanks for the help btw :)

[keskiverto]

Google with "wx/setup.h" tells that setup.h is usually elsewhere (so that you can have many versions).

Google with "wx Linux Mint" finds stuff like http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=76829

The question is still: How did you install wx? Some "apt-get install" or what?

[EwCjE3v7]

I installed it by the following commands from their website.

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb http://repos.codelite.org/wx3.0.2/ubuntu/ trusty universe'

apt-get update

apt-get install libwxbase3.0-0-unofficial \
libwxbase3.0-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-0-unofficial \
libwxgtk3.0-dev \
wx3.0-headers \
wx-common \
libwxbase3.0-dbg \
libwxgtk3.0-dbg \
wx3.0-i18n \
wx3.0-examples \
wx3.0-doc

[norm b]

Perhaps this will help: https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Wx-Config

[EwCjE3v7]

Thank you norm b, that worked :).

Thanks to keskiverto for all his help to.

g++ `wx-config --cxxflags` -o out *.cpp `wx-config --libs`