-Installing wxWidgets 2.5.3
+Installing wxWidgets 2.5.5
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-This is wxWidgets 2.5.3 for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000
+This is wxWidgets 2.5.5 for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000
and Windows XP. This is an unstable development release. Note that unstable in
this context doesn't mean that it crashes a lot, just that the library API may
change in backwards incompatible way during the 2.5 branch lifetime.
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1. CodeWarrior Pro7 project files in XML format are already
- included in wxMSW-2.5.3.zip and the setup version.
+ included in wxMSW-2.5.5.zip and the setup version.
2. Review the file include\wx\msw\setup.h (or include\wx\msw\setup0.h if
you are working from the CVS version) to make sure the settings reflect
Cygwin/MinGW compilation
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-wxWidgets 2 supports Cygwin (formerly GnuWin32) betas and
+wxWidgets supports Cygwin (formerly GnuWin32) betas and
releases, and MinGW. Cygwin can be downloaded from:
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
installed in case of MinGW). You will need new enough MinGW version, preferably
MinGW 2.0 (ships with gcc3) or at least 1.0 (gcc-2.95.3). GCC versions older
than 2.95.3 don't work; you can use wxWidgets 2.4 with them.
+If using Cygwin, you must pass --disable-sockets to configure due to a header
+conflict in Cygwin.
NOTE: some notes specific to old Cygwin (< 1.1.x) are at the end of this
section (see OLD VERSIONS)