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1 Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK+
2 -----------------------------
3
4You have downloaded the GTK+ port of the wxWidgets GUI library.
5
6It is required to use at least GTK+ 2.4 and some features are
7only available when using GTK+ 2.8 or higher. Note that if you
8compile wxWidgets against GTK+ 2.8 your app will still work
9with older GTK+ version down to version 2.4 as wxWidgets
10tests for the presence of newer features at run-time and it
11will fall back to a generic implementation if these features
12are not present in the GTK+ version used.
13
14wxWidgets 2.8 still supports GTK+ 1.2, but no developement
15is done on that port anymore and support for GTK+ 1.2 will
16probably be dropped entirely. Indeed, one of the major steps
17in the developement cycle leading up to wxWidgets 2.8 was
18that the codebase for GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2.0 were separated
19so that improvements and clean-ups to the GTK+ 2.0 port
20could be done without caring for GTK+ 1.2.
21
22More info about the wxWidgets project (including all the
23other ports and version of wxWidgets) can be found at the
24main wxWidgets homepage at:
25
26 http://www.wxwidgets.org/
27
28Information on how to install can be found in the file
29INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
30many systems:
31
32 mkdir build_gtk
33 cd build_gtk
34 ../configure
35 make
36 su <type root password>
37 make install
38 ldconfig
39
40In order to use wxGTK with GTK 1.2 you need to use --with-gtk=1
41configure option. To build the library in Unicode mode (all
42strings will be wide strings and so on) you need to configure
43with GTK 2.0 and add --enable-unicode.
44
45Please note that it is strongly advised to build the library in
46a separate directory, as shown above, as it allows you to have
47different builds of it (for example with and without debug) in
48parallel. If you build in the source directory, don't forget to
49do "make clean" before changing the configuration!
50
51When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and
52follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success,
53please send a bug report to one of our mailing list, INCLUDING
54A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR
55VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR
56WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
57
58Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests,
59bug reports or comments to the wxWidgets users list. These can
60be found at http://www.wxwidgets.org and more specifically at
61http://lists.wxwidgets.org.
62
63wxWidgets doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It
64might crash your harddisk or destroy your monitor. It doesn't
65claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose.
66
67 Regards,
68
69 Robert Roebling
70