- Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk,
+ 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
-you have downloaded version 1.97 of the GTK+ port of C++ library
-wxWindows. Information on how to install can be found in the
-file INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
-all systems
+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:
-configure --without-threads
+ http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin
+
+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 (PASSWORD)
+su <type root password>
make install
+ldconfig
+exit
When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and
follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success,
DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know
this has no effect, but I tried...
-wxWindows/Gtk is still in development and you can have a look
-at the TODO.txt to see what's missing before an official beta
-and - more important - before we can aim at binary compatibility.
-
-More information is available from my homepage at
+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.
- http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
-
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.
-wxWindows/Gtk comes with no 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,