X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/4f02408ec96dbb43a505aa2b4781ac943a32772c..6ada5c335980d255e2fb315ed86c091010870c5e:/docs/gtk/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt index daad1328f9..b398d599ea 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt @@ -1,32 +1,20 @@ - Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1.11 + Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.3 -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. +you have downloaded version 2.3 of the GTK port of the +wxWindows GUI library. wxWindows 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. -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 +More info about the wxWindows project (and the Windows and Motif ports in particular) can be found at Julian's homepage at: - http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin + 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 @@ -39,6 +27,15 @@ make install ldconfig exit +In order to use wxGTK with GTK 2.0 and its unicode +support, you need to configure + +./configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode +etc. + +Sofar, support for GTK 2.0 has only been tested on +Linux with glibc 2.2. + 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 @@ -47,7 +44,7 @@ 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.11.0.0 (shared) so +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. @@ -56,6 +53,8 @@ Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests, bug reports or comments to the wxWindows 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 or general purpose.