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1 | Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK+ | |
2 | ----------------------------- | |
3 | ||
4 | You have downloaded the GTK+ port of the wxWidgets GUI library. | |
5 | ||
6 | It is recommended to use at least GTK+ 2.2.3 to get the | |
7 | most out of wxWidgets and some features are only available | |
8 | when using GTK+ 2.4 or even from GTK+ 2.8. Note that if you | |
9 | compile wxWidgets against GTK+ 2.8 your app will still work | |
10 | with older GTK+ version down to version 2.2 as wxWidgets | |
11 | tests for the presence of newer features at run-time and it | |
12 | will fall back to a generic implementation if these features | |
13 | are not present in the GTK+ version used. | |
14 | ||
15 | wxWidgets 2.8 still supports GTK+ 1.2, but no developement | |
16 | is done on that port anymore and support for GTK+ 1.2 will | |
17 | probably be dropped entirely. Indeed, one of the major steps | |
18 | in the developement cycle leading up to wxWidgets 2.8 was | |
19 | that the codebase for GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2.0 were separated | |
20 | so that improvements and clean-ups to the GTK+ 2.0 port | |
21 | could be done without caring for GTK+ 1.2. | |
22 | ||
23 | More info about the wxWidgets project (including all the | |
24 | other ports and version of wxWidgets) can be found at the | |
25 | main wxWidgets homepage at: | |
26 | ||
27 | http://www.wxwidgets.org/ | |
28 | ||
29 | Information on how to install can be found in the file | |
30 | INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on | |
31 | many systems: | |
32 | ||
33 | mkdir build_gtk | |
34 | cd build_gtk | |
35 | ../configure | |
36 | make | |
37 | su <type root password> | |
38 | make install | |
39 | ldconfig | |
40 | ||
41 | In order to use wxGTK with GTK 1.2 you need to use --with-gtk=1 | |
42 | configure option. To build the library in Unicode mode (all | |
43 | strings will be wide strings and so on) you need to configure | |
44 | with GTK 2.0 and add --enable-unicode. | |
45 | ||
46 | Please note that it is strongly advised to build the library in | |
47 | a separate directory, as shown above, as it allows you to have | |
48 | different builds of it (for example with and without debug) in | |
49 | parallel. If you build in the source directory, don't forget to | |
50 | do "make clean" before changing the configuration! | |
51 | ||
52 | When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and | |
53 | follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success, | |
54 | please send a bug report to one of our mailing list, INCLUDING | |
55 | A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR | |
56 | VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR | |
57 | WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried... | |
58 | ||
59 | Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests, | |
60 | bug reports or comments to the wxWidgets users list. These can | |
61 | be found at http://www.wxwidgets.org and more specifically at | |
62 | http://lists.wxwidgets.org. | |
63 | ||
64 | wxWidgets doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It | |
65 | might crash your harddisk or destroy your monitor. It doesn't | |
66 | claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose. | |
67 | ||
68 | Regards, | |
69 | ||
70 | Robert Roebling | |
71 |