When it comes to getting user input and performing an action in a Windows environment there are several convenient options: You can purchase a Microsoft development environment for several thousand dollars such as Visual Studio (or whatever is the latest name for it)....
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Setup for Cross Compiling of wxWidget for Windows on Fedora 7
I haven't managed to get wxWidgets-2.8.5 to compile using MinGW and the w32 target under Fedora 7. The following was an attempt but sadly not a working one. Install MinGW Download the following from http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw/packages/fc2/...