X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/7921cf2badfac0c44cd53644bfc6a483a09ec299..5aa67d6619d7758bd66375ef75b698ae49f3418b:/docs/gtk/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt index bd5f8134ea..43ddd06918 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt @@ -1,62 +1,64 @@ - Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.01, - -you have downloaded version 2.01 of the GTK+ 1.0 port of -the wxWindows GUI library. - -More information is available from my homepage at: + Welcome to wxWidgets 2.6 for GTK+ - 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: +You have downloaded version 2.6 of the GTK+ port of the +wxWidgets GUI library. + +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. - http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin +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://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 -all systems - -./configure -make -make install +many systems: -Type the following to make the samples + mkdir build_gtk + cd build_gtk + ../configure --with-gtk=2 + make + su + make install + ldconfig -make samples +In order to use wxGTK with GTK 1.2 you need to use --with-gtk=1 +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. -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 +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! -./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.0.1 (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. + +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 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 - -