- Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk,
+ Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1.14
+
+you have downloaded a beta version of the GTK+ 1.2 port of
+the wxWindows GUI library. Although this is not yet the
+final stable release wxGTK 2.2, the current version has
+been tested carefully on many systems and has been found
+to work better than any other previous version.
+
+This is the last beta release. wxWindows is now in a code
+freeze and only bugs will be corrected.
+
+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 is recommended although somw programs will work
+with GTK 1.2.3 onwards.
+
+More information is available from my homepage at:
+
+ http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
-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
+and about the wxWindows project as a whole (and the MSW
+and Motif ports in particular) can be found at Julian's
+homepage at:
-configure --without-threads
+ http://www.wxwindows.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 (PASSWORD)
+su <type root password>
make install
+ldconfig
+exit
-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.
+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...
-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.14.0.0 (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.
+
+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.
+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,