docs/gtk/readme.txt

   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