X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/2dc5505ebcf8412d425028e91297f061e685368f..78e848cac9c973346dcf598f3c1b942b63dd2821:/docs/gtk/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt index 9c48b90956..0e727e458b 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt @@ -1,49 +1,64 @@ - Welcome to wxWindows for GTK 1.0, + Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1.12 + +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 -you have downloaded the first beta version of the upcoming -release 2.0 of the GTK+ 1.0 port of wxWindows library. - Information on how to install can be found in the file INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on -all systems +many systems: -configure +./configure --with-gtk make -su (PASSWORD) +su make install ldconfig +exit -When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and +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... - -This is the beta release which means that we have a feature -freeze. We'll move up to version 2.0 rather soon and from then -on there will be no more binary incompatible changes. We might -add more classes, but none that would alter the behaviour of -the existing ones. The library produced by the install process -of the final version will be called libwx_gtk_1_0.a (static) -and libwx_gtk_1_0.so.2.0.0 (shared) so that once a version -of wxWindows/Gtk for GTK 1.2 comes out we'll change the name -of the library to avoid linking problems. - -More information is available from my homepage at +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.12.0.0 (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. -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. +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,