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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+ 2.6 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 2.6 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 2.9.4 adds support for GTK+ 3, which can be enabled
15with configure option --with-gtk=3. Note that this port is
16still in development and may have significant bugs or missing
17features, and should be considered experimental.
18
19wxWidgets 2.8 still supports GTK+ 1.2, but no developement
20is done on that port anymore and support for GTK+ 1.2 will
21probably be dropped entirely. Indeed, one of the major steps
22in the developement cycle leading up to wxWidgets 2.8 was
23that the codebase for GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2.0 were separated
24so that improvements and clean-ups to the GTK+ 2.0 port
25could be done without caring for GTK+ 1.2.
26
27More info about the wxWidgets project (including all the
28other ports and version of wxWidgets) can be found at the
29main wxWidgets homepage at:
30
31 http://www.wxwidgets.org/
32
33Information on how to install can be found in the file
34INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
35many systems:
36
37 mkdir build_gtk
38 cd build_gtk
39 ../configure
40 make
41 su <type root password>
42 make install
43 ldconfig
44
45In order to use wxGTK with GTK 1.2 you need to use --with-gtk=1
46configure option. To build the library in Unicode mode (all
47strings will be wide strings and so on) you need to configure
48with GTK 2.0 and add --enable-unicode.
49
50Please note that it is strongly advised to build the library in
51a separate directory, as shown above, as it allows you to have
52different builds of it (for example with and without debug) in
53parallel. If you build in the source directory, don't forget to
54do "make clean" before changing the configuration!
55
56When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and
57follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success,
58please send a bug report to one of our mailing list, INCLUDING
59A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR
60VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR
61WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
62
63Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests,
64bug reports or comments to the wxWidgets users list. These can
65be found at http://www.wxwidgets.org and more specifically at
66http://lists.wxwidgets.org.
67
68wxWidgets doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It
69might crash your harddisk or destroy your monitor. It doesn't
70claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose.
71
72 Regards,
73
74 Robert Roebling
75