X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/3fc6e5fa23909c701654001a895f2ba95751e0af..901b583c7117e84cecf01d741d61bc1ac1625ba7:/docs/gtk/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt index b398d599ea..6b29045711 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ - Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.3 + Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.5 -you have downloaded version 2.3 of the GTK port of the +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 @@ -10,32 +10,40 @@ 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 wxWindows project (and the Windows -and Motif ports in particular) can be found at Julian's -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://www.wxwindows.org + 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 -make install -ldconfig -exit + mkdir gtk + cd gtk + ../configure --with-gtk + make + su + make install + ldconfig -In order to use wxGTK with GTK 2.0 and its unicode -support, you need to configure +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. -./configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode -etc. - -Sofar, support for GTK 2.0 has only been tested on +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 @@ -44,10 +52,12 @@ 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-2.2.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. +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