X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/31276cb5e77fcddaea54e0ba2f30da5e5d74747c..9d6a9fdd13ab25f0ac7c54a3ec8098f8b5c1d118:/docs/gtk/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt index b63774e4b2..bee4785719 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt @@ -1,68 +1,64 @@ - Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1 snapshot 4, + Welcome to wxWidgets/Gtk 2.5 -you have downloaded version 2.1 of the GTK+ 1.2 port of -the wxWindows GUI library. This is a developers release -and is it not suited for production development. Beware -that major changes can happen before a final release - -Particularly the makefile system will change entirly. - -More information is available from my homepage at: +You have downloaded version 2.5 of the GTK+ port of the +wxWidgets GUI library. - 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: +wxWidgets no longer supports GTK 1.0.x (as did some early +snapshots) and support for GTK 1.2.x will be phased out +over time. Nearly all work is now done on GTK 2.0.x and +quite a few of the enhancements of GTK+ 2.2.x and even +GTK 2.4.x are used. + +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://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin + 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 (when using GTK 1.0 read the INSTALL.txt): +many systems: -./configure -make -su -ldconfig -make install -exit + mkdir build_gtk + cd build_gtk + ../configure --with-gtk + make + su + make install + ldconfig -Type the following to make the samples +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. -make samples +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! -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 +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.1.0 (shared) so that -once a binary incompatible version of wxWindows/Gtk comes out -we'll augment 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, -bug reports or comments to the wxWindows users 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 purpose. +Do NOT send any comments directly to me. + +wxWidgets/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, Robert Roebling - -