title: How to get Eclipse CDT working with WxWidgets under windows?
body: <ul>
  <li>wxWidgets-3.1.3</li>
  <li>Eclipse IDE 4.14.0</li>
  <li>Eclipse CDT 9.10.0.2019x (the latest packages as of 2/2/2020)</li>
  <li>MinGW compiler, installed via MSYS2 </li>
  <li>Windows 10 Pro</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I have been using Eclipse for years for PHP, Python, JavaScript, and lua.  I am, however, new to C++ and Eclipse CDT.  I've got a reasonable enough grip on C++ syntax and convention that I'm ready to move on to the reason I came to C++, which is GUI.  At first I tried Code::Blocks, which seemed simpler (I like wizards!), but I really would prefer an IDE with git integration, and I realised C::B didn't have that before I managed to get compilation working.  So, back to Eclipse.</p>
  
  <p>So far, I have done the following:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>added the MinGW compiler path to %PATH%</li>
  <li>successfully compiled wxWidgets 3.1.3 using SHARED=0 UNICODE=1 MONOLITHIC=0 BUILD=release, these changes made in %WXDIR%\build\msw\config.gcc.  The various tutorials I have found wildly disagree on these parameters, but the various responses to people with my problem here and on other forums have all been generally in agreement on them, and with the exception of BUILD, they're the defaults.  So.</li>
  <li>successfully compiled a test program from samples/minimal.  The resulting executable runs without needing any other DLLs in the same directory.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, this is where I'm stuck.  There are plenty of tutorials and forum posts out there, but I run into one or more of the following problems:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Not newbie accessible. "Add a link to your wxWidgets directory" but okay, how do I do that, and do you mean the main %WXDIR% code directory or %WXDIR%\lib or what?</li>
  <li>Don't work.  "Just File->Import->File System->%WXDIR%" and nope.  Did, in fact, get rid of the "not resolved" for SOME references in code pasted from "minimal.cpp", but not all.</li>
  <li>Explicitly refer to versions of the IDE or Code from, oh, say, ten years ago, and/or contain instructions that cannot be followed in the current version.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Alternately, I would take a recommendation for another GUI toolkit that has accessible instructions for getting the current version of itself working with the current version of Eclipse.</p>