# Install wxwidgets with Homebrew, apk, dnf, pacman, zypper Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit. Version 3.3.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-08. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:wxwidgets ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install wxwidgets ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add wxwidgets ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wxwidgets from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install wxGTK ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: wxGTK from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S wxwidgets-qt5 ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: wxwidgets-qt5 from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install libwx_baseu-suse-nostl16_0_0 ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libwx_baseu-suse-nostl16_0_0 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:wxwidgets - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 3.3.3 - **Source summary:** Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** LGPL-2.0-or-later WITH WxWindows-exception-3.1 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-08T03:44:57Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-09T07:20:21+00:00 ## Executables - wx-config (cli) - wx-config-3.3 (cli) - wxrc (cli) - wxrc-3.3 (cli) - wx-config (alias) - wx-config-3.3 (alias) - wxrc (alias) - wxrc-3.3 (alias) ## Dependencies - jpeg-turbo - libpng - libtiff - pcre2 - webp ## Build dependencies - pkgconf ## Uses from macOS - expat ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-09 - Package-manager version: 3.3.3 - Package-manager updated: 2026-07-08 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage wxWidgets is a long-running, cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit whose package-manager importance comes from its role as a native-widget portability layer for desktop applications. The project began in 1992 as wxWindows and later adopted the wxWidgets name, while keeping the central idea that one C++ codebase can target Windows, Unix/Linux, macOS, and other platforms through native or platform-specific ports. ### Project history The official wxWidgets history traces the project to Julian Smart at the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, in 1992. Smart was building Hardy, a meta-CASE tool that needed to run on Windows and X-based Unix workstations; commercial cross-platform GUI tools were too expensive for the in-house experimental project, so the toolkit was created as wxWindows. The project's name changed from wxWindows to wxWidgets in 2004 after an agreement involving Microsoft's Windows trademark. The official name-change page says Julian Smart and Robin Dunn would stop using the wxWindows name by August 2004, with the new wxwidgets.org domain becoming the project's public identity. wxWidgets developed as a community-maintained toolkit rather than a single-vendor product. The official overview describes hundreds of contributors and a user base ranging from open-source developers to corporations, while the team page identifies maintainers around major ports and related projects such as wxGTK, wxMac, wxiOS, and wxPython. ### Adoption history wxWidgets has been adopted where native desktop look-and-feel and C++ portability matter more than a web-style UI stack. The official overview lists organizations and applications associated with wxWidgets, including AOL, AMD, Lockheed Martin, Xerox, NASA, Audacity, FileZilla, and TortoiseCVS. The license helped adoption across both free-software and proprietary contexts. The wxWidgets license page describes the wxWindows Library Licence as LGPL-like with an exception allowing derived binary works to be distributed on the user's own terms, a compromise intended to satisfy GPL and proprietary application authors. ### How it is used Developers use wxWidgets as a library and toolchain component for native GUI applications, usually compiling against a platform port such as wxMSW, wxGTK, or wxMac. In package-manager contexts, the notable command-line surfaces are helper tools such as wx-config, which reports compiler and linker flags, and wxrc, which compiles XRC resource files. In C and C++ packaging, wxWidgets is the kind of dependency that exposes ABI and version-line concerns: downstream software often cares about which major stable branch it builds against, and build systems commonly discover it through wx-config or CMake support rather than treating it as a header-only library. ### Why package nerds care For package maintainers, wxWidgets is a classic desktop-stack dependency: old enough to have long ABI lines and wide downstream use, but still active enough to need modern compiler, CMake, macOS, GTK, and architecture support. Its formula is significant less because of a single executable and more because it supplies the GUI substrate for many other packages. The package also illustrates why GUI toolkit packaging is harder than ordinary CLI packaging: bindings, native toolkit backends, resource compilers, and ABI-compatible stable branches all matter to downstream builds. ### Timeline - 1992: Julian Smart starts wxWindows at the University of Edinburgh's Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute. - 1998-2005: The wxWindows Library Licence text is maintained by Julian Smart, Robert Roebling, and contributors. - 2004: The project transitions from the wxWindows name to wxWidgets. - 2013: wxWidgets 3.0 is released as a major stable line. - 2022: wxWidgets 3.2.0 is released, opening the next ABI-stable series after the 3.0 line. ### Related projects - wxPython is the Python binding project around wxWidgets; the wxWidgets team page notes Robin Dunn's work on wxPython and its relationship to the toolkit. - Related desktop GUI toolkits in the same packaging ecosystem include Qt, GTK/gtkmm, FLTK, FOX, JUCE, and IUP; wxWidgets is distinguished by its native-widget abstraction and long C++ history. ### Sources - - - - - - ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** wxwidgets - **Aliases:** wxwidgets@3.3 - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - apk - wxwidgets - 3.2.9-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wxwidgets from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | wxWidgets GUI library | https://www.wxwidgets.org/ - apk - wxwidgets-dbg - 3.2.9-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wxwidgets-dbg from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | wxWidgets GUI library (debug symbols) | https://www.wxwidgets.org/ - apk - wxwidgets-dev - 3.2.9-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wxwidgets-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | wxWidgets GUI library (development files) | https://www.wxwidgets.org/ - apk - wxwidgets-doc - 3.2.9-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wxwidgets-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | wxWidgets GUI library (documentation) | https://www.wxwidgets.org/ - apk - wxwidgets-gtk3 - 3.2.9-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wxwidgets-gtk3 from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | wxWidgets GUI library (GTK3 components) | https://www.wxwidgets.org/ - apk - wxwidgets-qt5 - 3.2.9-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wxwidgets-qt5 from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | wxWidgets GUI library (Qt5 components) | https://www.wxwidgets.org/ - apk - wxwidgets-webview - 3.2.9-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wxwidgets-webview from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | wxWidgets GUI library (WebView component) | https://www.wxwidgets.org/ - dnf - wxGTK - 3.2.9-2.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: wxGTK from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | GTK port of the wxWidgets GUI library | https://www.wxwidgets.org/ - pacman - wxwidgets-qt5 - 3.2.10-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: wxwidgets-qt5 from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Qt5 implementation of wxWidgets API for GUI | https://wxwidgets.org - zypper - libwx_baseu-suse-nostl16_0_0 - 3.2.8-4.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libwx_baseu-suse-nostl16_0_0 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | wxWidgets base library | https://www.wxwidgets.org/ - zypper - libwx_baseu-suse16_0_0 - 3.2.8-4.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libwx_baseu-suse16_0_0 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | wxWidgets base library | https://www.wxwidgets.org/ ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - 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[combined/wxwidgets.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/wxwidgets.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph