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1 \section{wxGTK port}\label{wxgtkport}
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3 wxGTK is a port of wxWidgets using the GTK+ library.
4 It makes use of GTK+'s native widgets wherever possible and uses
5 wxWidgets' generic controls when needed. GTK+ itself has been
6 ported to a number of systems, but so far only the original X11
7 version is supported. Support for other GTK+ backends is planned,
8 such as the new DirectFB backend.
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10 All work is being done on GTK+ version 2.0 and above. Support for
11 GTK+ 1.2 will be deprecated in a later release.
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13 You will need GTK+ 2.0 or higher which is available from:
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15 \urlref{http://www.gtk.org}{http://www.gtk.org}
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17 The newer version of GTK+ you use, the more native widgets and
18 features will be utilized. We have gone to a great extent to
19 allow compiling wxWidgets applications with a latest version of
20 GTK+, with the resulting binary working on systems even with a
21 much lower version of GTK+. You will have to ensure that the
22 application is launched with lazy symbol binding for that.
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24 In order to configure wxWidgets to compile wxGTK you will
25 need use the {\tt --with-gtk} argument to the {\tt configure} script.
26 This is the default for many systems.
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28 GTK+ 1.2 can still be used, albeit discouraged. For that you can
29 pass {\tt --with-gtk=1} to the {\tt configure} script.
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31 For further information, please see the files in docs/gtk
32 in the distribution.
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