-
- Welcome to wxWidgets/Gtk 2.5
-
-You have downloaded version 2.5 of the GTK port of the
-wxWidgets GUI library.
-
-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 info about the wxWidgets project (including the
-Windows, X11/Motif and other ports) can be found at the main
-wxWidgets homepage at:
-
- http://www.wxwidgets.org
+ 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:
- mkdir gtk
- cd gtk
- ../configure --with-gtk
+ mkdir build_gtk
+ cd build_gtk
+ ../configure
make
su <type root password>
make install
ldconfig
-In order to use wxGTK with GTK 2.0 you need to use --enable-gtk2
+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.
-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
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,
-bug reports or comments to the wxWidgets 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.
-Do NOT send any comments directly to me.
-
-wxWidgets/Gtk doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It
+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.
Robert Roebling
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