X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/31276cb5e77fcddaea54e0ba2f30da5e5d74747c..a22d4c5cbe9b7344b491e07127b9b23cca840737:/docs/gtk/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt index b63774e4b2..2b9ccf1e9e 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt @@ -1,64 +1,73 @@ - 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 (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://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 gtk + cd 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 +Note that so far, support for GTK 2.0 has only been tested on +Linux with glibc 2.2. -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 +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 + +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_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. +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 wxWindows users Information on -how to subscribe is available from my homepage. +bug reports or comments to the wxWidgets users list. Information +on how to subscribe is available from my homepage. + +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 purpose. +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,