- Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1.11
+ Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.5
-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.
+You have downloaded version 2.5 of the GTK port of the
+wxWindows GUI library.
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 or above is recommended although some programs
+will work with GTK 1.2.3 onwards. There is now support
+for GTK 2.0.
-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:
+More info about the wxWindows project (including the
+Windows, X11/Motif and other ports) can be found at the main
+wxWindows 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
+ 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 <type root password>
-make install
-ldconfig
-exit
+ 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.
-When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and
+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 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...
+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) 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.
+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 wxWindows/Gtk comes out we'll augment
+the library version number to avoid linking problems.
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.
-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.
+Do NOT send any comments directly to me.
+
+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,
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