- Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1.14
+ Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.5
-you have downloaded a beta version of the GTK+ 1.2 port of
-the wxWindows GUI library. Although this is not yet the
-final stable release wxGTK 2.2, the current version has
-been tested carefully on many systems and has been found
-to work better than any other previous version.
-
-This is the last beta release. wxWindows is now in a code
-freeze and only bugs will be corrected.
+You have downloaded version 2.5 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 is recommended although some programs will work
-with GTK 1.2.3 onwards.
-
-More information is available from my homepage at:
+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.
- http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
-
-and about the wxWindows project as a whole (and the MSW
-and Motif ports in particular) can be found at Julian's
-homepage at:
+More info about the wxWindows project (including the
+Windows, X11/Motif and other ports) can be found at the main
+wxWindows homepage at:
- http://www.wxwindows.org
+ http://www.wxwindows.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:
-./configure --with-gtk
-make
-su <type root password>
-make install
-ldconfig
-exit
+ 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.
+
+Note that so far, support for GTK 2.0 has only been tested on
+Linux with glibc 2.2.
+
+
+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,
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.14.0.0 (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 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 the wxWindows users list. Information