3. Get wxGTK. For the wxJS console program you have to configure wxWidgets as follows: cd wx-folder mkdir buildbase ../configure --disable-gui --enable-unicode --disable-shared --with-odbc --without-expat make The gui-part also needs the gui modules. Create a buildgtk folder in the wx-folder. It also needs the graphics libraries: libjpeg and libtiff4. Make sure these dev-packages are installed. Call the same configure command as above, but omit --disable-gui