- Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1 snapshot 6,
+ Welcome to wxWidgets/Gtk 2.5
-you have downloaded version 2.1 of the GTK+ 1.2 port of
-the wxWindows GUI library. This is a developers release
-and is it not suited for production development. Beware
-that major changes can happen before a final release.
+You have downloaded version 2.5 of the GTK port of the
+wxWidgets GUI library.
-Beginning from snapshot 6 wxWindows uses a completely
-new make file system on Unix that uses GNU automake,
-GNU autoconf and GNU autoheader. You do not need these
-programs in order to use the library, but for taking
-part in its development, they are required. Read the
-INSTALL.txt file for learning what you can do with it.
+wxWidgets 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 information is available from my homepage at:
+More info about the wxWidgets project (including the
+Windows, X11/Motif and other ports) can be found at the main
+wxWidgets homepage at:
- http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
-
-and about the wxWindows project as a whole (and the
-Windows and Motif ports in particular) can be found
-at Julian Smart's homepage at:
-
- http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin
+ http://www.wxwidgets.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 (when using GTK 1.0 read the INSTALL.txt):
+many systems:
+
+ mkdir gtk
+ cd gtk
+ ../configure --with-gtk
+ make
+ su <type root password>
+ make install
+ ldconfig
+
+In order to use wxGTK with GTK 2.0 you need to use --enable-gtk2
+configure option. To build the library in Unicode mode (all
+strings will be wide strings and so on) you need to configure
+with GTK 2.0 and add --enable-unicode.
-./configure
-make
-su <type root password>
-make install
-ldconfig
-exit
+Note that so far, 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
+
+Please note that it is strongly advised to build the library in
+a separate directory, as shown above, as it allows you to have
+different builds of it (for example with and without debug) in
+parallel. If you build in the source directory, don't forget to
+do "make clean" before changing the configuration!
+
+
+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 lists (see
-my homepage) 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...
+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-2.1.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.
+libwx_gtk.a (static, only buil if --disable-shared configure
+switch was used or if shared libraries are not supported at all
+on your platform which is quite unlikely) and
+libwx_gtk-2.2.so.0.0.0 (shared) so that once a binary
+incompatible version of wxWidgets/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 Information on
-how to subscribe is available from my homepage.
+bug reports or comments to the wxWidgets 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.
+wxWidgets/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,
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