-
- Welcome to wxWidgets 2.6 for GTK+
-
-You have downloaded version 2.6 of the GTK+ port of the
-wxWidgets GUI library.
-
-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.
+ Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK+
+ -----------------------------
+
+You have downloaded the GTK+ port of the wxWidgets GUI library.
+
+It is required to use at least GTK+ 2.4 and some features are
+only available when using GTK+ 2.8 or higher. Note that if you
+compile wxWidgets against GTK+ 2.8 your app will still work
+with older GTK+ version down to version 2.4 as wxWidgets
+tests for the presence of newer features at run-time and it
+will fall back to a generic implementation if these features
+are not present in the GTK+ version used.
+
+wxWidgets 2.8 still supports GTK+ 1.2, but no developement
+is done on that port anymore and support for GTK+ 1.2 will
+probably be dropped entirely. Indeed, one of the major steps
+in the developement cycle leading up to wxWidgets 2.8 was
+that the codebase for GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2.0 were separated
+so that improvements and clean-ups to the GTK+ 2.0 port
+could be done without caring for GTK+ 1.2.
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.wxwidgets.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
mkdir build_gtk
cd build_gtk
- ../configure --with-gtk2
+ ../configure
make
su <type root password>
make install
ldconfig
-In order to use wxGTK with GTK 1.2 you need to use --with-gtk1
+In order to use wxGTK with GTK 1.2 you need to use --with-gtk=1
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 (default by now).
+with GTK 2.0 and add --enable-unicode.
Please note that it is strongly advised to build the library in
a separate directory, as shown above, as it allows you to have
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,
please send a bug report to one of our mailing list, INCLUDING
be found at http://www.wxwidgets.org and more specifically at
http://lists.wxwidgets.org.
-Do NOT send any comments directly to me.
-
wxWidgets 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.