- Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1 beta 2,
+ 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 -
-Particularly the makefile system will change entirly.
-
+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
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 (when using GTK 1.0 or when not using Linux
+read the INSTALL.txt):
./configure
make
su <type root password>
-ldconfig
make install
+ldconfig
exit
-Type the following to make the samples
-
-make samples
-
-To start the samples, change into the directory that
-corresponds to the sample and your system, e.g on a
-linux-gnu machine the minimal sample would get started
-from the wxWindows base dir with
-
-./samples/minimal/linux-gnu/minimal
-
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
this has no effect, but I tried...
The library produced by the install process will be called
-libwx_gtk2.a (static) and libwx_gtk2.so.1.0 (shared) so that
+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 library version number to avoid linking problems.
+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 wxWindows users list. Information
+on how to subscribe is available from my homepage.
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.
+suitable for any special or general purpose.
Regards,