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

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-  Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk,
+  Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.01,
   
-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
+you have downloaded version 2.01 of the GTK+ 1.0 port of 
+the wxWindows GUI library.
+ 
+More information is available from my homepage at:
+
+  http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
+  
+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:
+
+  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
 all systems
 
-configure --without-threads
+./configure
 make
-su (PASSWORD)
 make install
 
-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.
+Type the following to make the samples
 
-More information is available from my homepage at
+make samples
+
+To start the samples, change into the directory that
+corresponds to the sample and your system, e.g on a
+linux-gnu machine the minimal sample would get started
+from the wxWindows base dir with
+
+./samples/minimal/linux-gnu/minimal
+
+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 lists (see
+my homepage) 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_gtk2.a (static) and libwx_gtk2.so.0.1 (shared) so that 
+once a binary incompatible version of wxWindows/Gtk comes out 
+we'll augment 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 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
+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 purpose.
 
   Regards,