-
- Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1 snapshot 8,
-
-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.
-
-Beginning with 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 the
-new configure/automake/libtool system.
-
-More information is available from my 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
+ Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK+
+ -----------------------------
+
+You have downloaded the GTK+ port of the wxWidgets GUI library.
+
+It is recommended to use at least GTK+ 2.2.3 to get the
+most out of wxWidgets and some features are only available
+when using GTK+ 2.4 or even from GTK+ 2.8. Note that if you
+compile wxWidgets against GTK+ 2.8 your app will still work
+with older GTK+ version down to version 2.2 as wxWidgets
+tests for the presence of newer features at run-time and it
+will fall back to a generic implementation if these features
+are not present in the GTK+ version used.
+
+wxWidgets 2.8 still supports GTK+ 1.2, but no developement
+is done on that port anymore and support for GTK+ 1.2 will
+probably be dropped entirely. Indeed, one of the major steps
+in the developement cycle leading up to wxWidgets 2.8 was
+that the codebase for GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2.0 were separated
+so that improvements and clean-ups to the GTK+ 2.0 port
+could be done without caring for GTK+ 1.2.
+
+More info about the wxWidgets project (including all the
+other ports and version of wxWidgets) can be found at the
+main wxWidgets homepage at:
+
+ 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 or when not using Linux
-read the INSTALL.txt):
-
-./configure
-make
-su <type root password>
-make install
-ldconfig
-exit
-
-When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and
+many systems:
+
+ mkdir build_gtk
+ cd build_gtk
+ ../configure
+ make
+ su <type root password>
+ make install
+ ldconfig
+
+In order to use wxGTK with GTK 1.2 you need to use --with-gtk=1
+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.
+
+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...
-
-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.
+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...
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.
+bug reports or comments to the wxWidgets users list. These can
+be found at http://www.wxwidgets.org and more specifically at
+http://lists.wxwidgets.org.
-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 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
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