Tidied some wording, added configtool

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

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@@ -1,48 +1,63 @@
 
-  Welcome to wxWindows for GTK 1.0,
+   Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.4
+
+you have downloaded version 2.4 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
   
-you have downloaded the first beta version of the upcoming
-release 2.0 of the GTK+ 1.0 port of wxWindows library.
- 
 Information on how to install can be found in the file 
 INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
-all systems
+many systems:
 
-configure --without-threads
+./configure --with-gtk
 make
-su (PASSWORD)
+su <type root password>
 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.
 
-When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and
+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 
 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...
-
-This is the beta release which means that we have a feature
-freeze. We'll move up to versin 2.0 rather soon and from then
-on there will be no more binary incompatible changes. We might
-add more classes, but none that would alter the behaviour of
-the existing ones. The library produced by the install process
-of the final version will be called libwx_gtk_1_0.a (static)
-and libwx_gtk_1_0.so.2.0.0 (shared) so that once a version
-of wxWindows/Gtk for GTK 1.2 comes out we'll change the name
-of the library to avoid linking problems.
-
-More information is available from my homepage at
-
-  http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
-  
+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 either the wxGTK mailing list or to
-the wxWindows developers list. Information on how to subscribe
-is available from my homepage.
+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 purpose.
+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,