Using Contrib Libraries

Included with wxWidgets is a variety of contributed libraries, found in the contrib subdirectory of your wxWidgets distribution. These are libraries that are distributed with wxWidgets but are not part of the core toolkit. Although they are not officially supported and may not be actively maintained by the core wxWidgets developers, they can still be very useful. It's easy to build the contrib libraries and use them in your projects.

You can build one or all of the contrib libraries using the same process as building the samples, discussed briefly with each compiler earlier. For Windows compilers, the libraries are compiled from within the contrib/ build/<name> subdirectories. Compiled libraries are automatically placed alongside the main wxWidgets library files, eliminating the need to add any additional directories to the link path. You do, however, need to add contrib/include to your include path.

For descriptions of the more important contrib libraries, such as wxStyledTextCtrl, see Appendix D, "Other Features in wxWidgets."