docs/gtk/readme.txt

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   2    Welcome to wxWidgets/Gtk 2.5
   3
   4 You have downloaded version 2.5 of the GTK port of the
   5 wxWidgets GUI library.
   6
   7 wxWidgets no longer supports GTK 1.0 (as did some early
   8 snapshots) so that you will need GTK 1.2 when using it.
   9 GTK 1.2.6 or above is recommended although some programs
  10 will work with GTK 1.2.3 onwards. There is now support
  11 for GTK 2.0.
  12
  13 More info about the wxWidgets project (including the
  14 Windows, X11/Motif and other ports) can be found at the main
  15 wxWidgets homepage at:
  16
  17                   http://www.wxwidgets.org
  18
  19 Information on how to install can be found in the file
  20 INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
  21 many systems:
  22
  23     mkdir gtk
  24     cd gtk
  25     ../configure --with-gtk
  26     make
  27     su <type root password>
  28     make install
  29     ldconfig
  30
  31 In order to use wxGTK with GTK 2.0 you need to use --enable-gtk2
  32 configure option. To build the library in Unicode mode (all
  33 strings will be wide strings and so on) you need to configure
  34 with GTK 2.0 and add --enable-unicode.
  35
  36 Note that so far, support for GTK 2.0 has only been tested on
  37 Linux with glibc 2.2.
  38
  39
  40 Please note that it is strongly advised to build the library in
  41 a separate directory, as shown above, as it allows you to have
  42 different builds of it (for example with and without debug) in
  43 parallel. If you build in the source directory, don't forget to
  44 do "make clean" before changing the configuration!
  45
  46
  47 When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and
  48 follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success,
  49 please send a bug report to one of our mailing list, INCLUDING
  50 A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR
  51 VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR
  52 WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
  53
  54 The library produced by the install process will be called
  55 libwx_gtk.a (static, only buil if --disable-shared configure
  56 switch was used or if shared libraries are not supported at all
  57 on your platform which is quite unlikely) and
  58 libwx_gtk-2.2.so.0.0.0 (shared) so that once a binary
  59 incompatible version of wxWidgets/Gtk comes out we'll augment
  60 the library version number to avoid linking problems.
  61
  62 Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests,
  63 bug reports or comments to the wxWidgets users list. Information
  64 on how to subscribe is available from my homepage.
  65
  66 Do NOT send any comments directly to me.
  67
  68 wxWidgets/Gtk doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It
  69 might crash your harddisk or destroy your monitor. It doesn't
  70 claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose.
  71
  72   Regards,
  73
  74     Robert Roebling
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