Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.3 you have downloaded version 2.3 of the GTK port of the wxWindows GUI library. wxWindows no longer supports GTK 1.0 (as did some early snapshots) so that you will need GTK 1.2 when using it. GTK 1.2.6 or above is recommended although some programs will work with GTK 1.2.3 onwards. There is now support for GTK 2.0. More info about the wxWindows project (and the Windows and Motif ports in particular) can be found at Julian's homepage at: http://www.wxwindows.org Information on how to install can be found in the file INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on many systems: ./configure --with-gtk make su make install ldconfig exit In order to use wxGTK with GTK 2.0 and its unicode support, you need to configure ./configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode etc. Sofar, support for GTK 2.0 has only been tested on Linux with glibc 2.2. When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success, please send a bug report to one of our mailing list, INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried... The library produced by the install process will be called libwx_gtk.a (static) and libwx_gtk-2.2.so.0.0.0 (shared) so that once a binary incompatible version of wxWindows/Gtk comes out we'll augment the library version number to avoid linking problems. Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests, bug reports or comments to the wxWindows users list. Information on how to subscribe is available from my homepage. Do NOT send any comments directly to me. wxWindows/Gtk doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It might crash your harddisk or destroy your monitor. It doesn't claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose. Regards, Robert Roebling