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[wxWidgets.git] / docs / gtk / install.txt

diff --git a/docs/gtk/install.txt b/docs/gtk/install.txt
index e57ebdf5d115007567767d4f596e58f01635d88e..487ce0bdabf220f5df54e73409e692eb65e1c61d 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/gtk/install.txt
+++ b/docs/gtk/install.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-wxWindows 2.3 for GTK installation
+wxWindows 2.5 for GTK installation
 ----------------------------------
 
 IMPORTANT NOTE:
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ IMPORTANT NOTE:
 
   When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWindows you are
   using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
-  example: wxGTK 2.3.3, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
+  example: wxGTK 2.4.0, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
 
 * The simplest case
 -------------------
@@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this:
 * The GTK+ 2 case
 -----------------
 
-wxGTK 2.3.3 has support for the new version 2.0.X of GTK+. This means
-that wxGTK apps can now make use Unicode as the underlying encoding
-for all text operations. This is a very fundamental change and will
-need time to stabilize, so be careful. Anyways, after installing a
-recent version of GTK+ 2.0, do this
+wxGTK has support for the new version 2.0.X of GTK+ since version 2.4.0.
+This means that wxGTK apps can now make use Unicode as the underlying encoding
+for all text operations. This is a very fundamental change and will need time
+to stabilize, so be careful. Anyways, after installing a recent version of GTK+
+2.0, do this
 
 > ./configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode
 > make
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ such as for GTK and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use
 them concurrently. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build
 of wxWindows - you may also want to create different versions of wxWindows
 and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured
-with --enable-debug_flag and one without. Note, that only one build can
+with --enable-debug and one without. Note, that only one build can
 currently be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for
 that purpose.
 
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ cd ..
 
 md buildgtkd
 cd buildgtkd
-../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug_flag
+../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug
 make
 cd ..
 
@@ -175,14 +175,8 @@ at my homepage.
 wxWindows/Gtk requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with
 threads.  This is the case on all commercial Unix-Variants and all
 Linux-Versions that are based on glibc 2 except RedHat 5.0 which is broken in
-many aspects. As of writing this, these Linux distributions have correct glibc
-2 support:
-
- - RedHat 5.1
- - Debian 2.0 and 3.0
- - Stampede
- - DLD 6.0
- - SuSE 6.0
+many aspects. As of writing this, virtually all Linux distributions have
+correct glibc 2 support.
 
 You can disable thread support by running
 
@@ -296,6 +290,10 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
     --disable-shared        Do not create shared libraries, but
                             build static libraries instead.
 
+    --enable-monolithic     Build wxWindows as single library instead
+                            of as several smaller libraries (which is
+                            the default since wxWindows 2.5.0).
+
     --disable-optimise      Do not optimise the code. Can
                             sometimes be useful for debugging
                             and is required on some architectures
@@ -341,6 +339,12 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
                             must be compiled with the same debug
                             options.
 
+    --enable-debug          Same as --enable-debug_info and
+                            --enable-debug_flag together. Unless you have
+                            some very specific needs, you should use this
+                            option instead of --enable-debug_info/flag ones
+                            separately.
+
 * Feature Options
 -----------------
 
@@ -361,6 +365,8 @@ are
 
     --without-libtiff       Disables TIFF image format code.
 
+    --without-expat         Disable XML classes based on Expat parser.
+
     --disable-pnm           Disables PNM image format code.
 
     --disable-gif           Disables GIF image format code.
@@ -397,6 +403,10 @@ Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip"
 the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant
 reduction in size.
 
+Please see the output of "./configure --help" for comprehensive list
+of all configurable options.
+
+
 * Compiling
 -----------
 
@@ -458,6 +468,12 @@ clean:
 This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
 to stick to tmake.
 
+If your application uses only some of wxWindows libraries, you can
+specify required libraries when running wx-config. For example,
+`wx-config --libs=html,core` will only output link command to link
+with libraries required by core GUI classes and wxHTML classes. See
+the manual for more information on the libraries.
+
 2) The other way creates a project within the source code
 directories of wxWindows. For this endeavour, you'll need
 GNU autoconf version 2.14 and add an entry to your Makefile.in