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[wxWidgets.git] / docs / gtk / readme.txt

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-  Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk,
-  
-you have downloaded version 1.96 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
+   Welcome to wxWidgets/Gtk 2.5

 
 

-configure --without-threads
-make
-su (PASSWORD)
-make install
+You have downloaded version 2.5 of the GTK port of the 
+wxWidgets GUI library.

 
 

-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.
+wxWidgets 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.

 
 

-More information is available from my homepage at
+More info about the wxWidgets project (including the
+Windows, X11/Motif and other ports) can be found at the main
+wxWidgets homepage at:

 
 

-  http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
+                  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:
+
+    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,
+please send a bug report to one of our mailing list, INCLUDING 
+A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR 
+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, 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 wxWidgets/Gtk comes out we'll augment
+the library version number to avoid linking problems.
+

 Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests, 
 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 wxWidgets users list. Information 
+on how to subscribe is available from my homepage.
+
+Do NOT send any comments directly to me.

 
 

-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.
+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.

 
   Regards,
 
 
   Regards,