- Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.3
+ Welcome to wxWidgets/Gtk 2.5
-you have downloaded version 2.3 of the GTK port of the
-wxWindows GUI library.
+You have downloaded version 2.5 of the GTK+ port of the
+wxWidgets 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.
+wxWidgets no longer supports GTK 1.0.x (as did some early
+snapshots) and support for GTK 1.2.x will be phased out
+over time. Nearly all work is now done on GTK 2.0.x and
+quite a few of the enhancements of GTK+ 2.2.x and even
+GTK 2.4.x are used.
-More info about the wxWindows project (and the Windows
-and Motif ports in particular) can be found at Julian's
-homepage at:
+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.wxwindows.org
+ 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:
-./configure --with-gtk
-make
-su <type root password>
-make install
-ldconfig
-exit
+ mkdir build_gtk
+ cd build_gtk
+ ../configure --with-gtk
+ make
+ su <type root password>
+ make install
+ ldconfig
-In order to use wxGTK with GTK 2.0 and its unicode
-support, you need to configure
+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.
-./configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode
-etc.
+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!
-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,
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 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.
Do NOT send any comments directly to me.
-wxWindows/Gtk doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It
+wxWidgets/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.
Robert Roebling
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