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List of questions in this category
What is wxWindows 2 for GTK?
Does wxGTK have GNOME support?
Warning about GTK libraries supplied with RedHat
What is wxWindows 2 for GTK?
What range of Intel Linux platforms will a given application binary be usable on?
wxWindows 2 for GTK is a port of wxWindows to the GTK+ toolkit,
which is freely available for most flavours of Unix with X. wxWindows 2 for GTK is
often abbreviated to wxGTK. wxGTK has a separate home page here.
Currently wxGTK does not have any features that would involve dependence on any desktop
environment's libraries, so it can work on GNOME, KDE and with other window managers
without installation hassles. Some GNOME and KDE integration features are file based, and
so may be added without dependence on libraries. Other features may be supported in the
future, probably as a separate library.
It seems that some versions of RedHat include a badly patched version of GTK (not wxGTK)
which causes some trouble with wxWindows' socket code. Common symptoms are that when
a client tries to establish a connection to an existing server which refuses the request,
the client will get notified twice, first getting a LOST event and then a CONNECT event.
This problem can be solved by updating GTK with an official distribution of the library.
Robert Roebling replies:
"The important thing is the libc version that your app
is linked against. The most recent version is 2.2.5
and programs linked against it will not run with version
2.1.X so that you will fare best if you compile your app
on a 2.1.X system. It will then run on practically all
Linux distros (if you link you app statically against
the image libraries and std C++ lib)."