added wxMSW-specific wxEntryStart() overload taking WinMain-like parameters

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

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-
-   Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1.11
-
-you have downloaded version 2.1 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.
-
-Nonetheless, beware that major changes can happen before 
-a final release.
-
-wxWindows no longer supports GTK 1.0 (as did some early
-snapshots) so that you will need GTK 1.2 when using it.
-
-Beginning with snapshot 9, wxWindows uses a completely
-new make file system on Unix which no longer uses the
-various GNU tools and I hope that I'll never again have
-to write any more makefiles.
-
-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 MSW
-and Motif ports in particular) can be found at Julian's 
-homepage at:
-
-  http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin
+   Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK+
+   -----------------------------
+
+You have downloaded the GTK+ port of the wxWidgets GUI library.
+
+It is recommended to use at least GTK+ 2.2.3 to get the
+most out of wxWidgets and some features are only available
+when using GTK+ 2.4 or even from GTK+ 2.8. Note that if you
+compile wxWidgets against GTK+ 2.8 your app will still work
+with older GTK+ version down to version 2.2 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/

   
 Information on how to install can be found in the file 
 INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
 many systems:
 
   
 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
-
-When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and
+    mkdir build_gtk
+    cd build_gtk
+    ../configure
+    make
+    su <type root password>
+    make install
+    ldconfig
+
+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.
+
+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,
 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_gtk.a (static) and libwx_gtk-2.1.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 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...

 
 Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests, 
 
 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.

 
 

-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.
+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.

 
   Regards,
 
     Robert Roebling
 
 
   Regards,
 
     Robert Roebling
 

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