X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/7b28757f5e64bac68d9b159240616fc4d9ad66bc..cc24bf919256e8e1d317dbb8e67df6d007d641ea:/docs/gtk/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt index d7b00d1128..40468a9cc9 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt @@ -1,40 +1,53 @@ - - Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1.14 - -you have downloaded a beta version 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. - -This is the last beta release. wxWindows is now in a code -freeze and only bugs will be corrected. - -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 is recommended although somw programs will work -with GTK 1.2.3 onwards. - -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 -and Motif ports in particular) can be found at Julian's -homepage at: - - http://www.wxwindows.org + Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK+ + ----------------------------- + +You have downloaded the GTK+ port of the wxWidgets GUI library. + +It is recommended to use at least GTK+ 2.2.3 to get the +most out of wxWidgets and some features are only available +when using GTK+ 2.4 or even from GTK+ 2.8. Note that if you +compile wxWidgets against GTK+ 2.8 your app will still work +with older GTK+ version down to version 2.2 as wxWidgets +tests for the presence of newer features at run-time and it +will fall back to a generic implementation if these features +are not present in the GTK+ version used. + +wxWidgets 2.8 still supports GTK+ 1.2, but no developement +is done on that port anymore and support for GTK+ 1.2 will +probably be dropped entirely. Indeed, one of the major steps +in the developement cycle leading up to wxWidgets 2.8 was +that the codebase for GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2.0 were separated +so that improvements and clean-ups to the GTK+ 2.0 port +could be done without caring for GTK+ 1.2. + +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 many systems: -./configure --with-gtk -make -su -make install -ldconfig -exit + mkdir build_gtk + cd build_gtk + ../configure + make + su + make install + ldconfig + +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. + +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, @@ -43,19 +56,12 @@ 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_gtk.a (static) and libwx_gtk-2.1.so.14.0.0 (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 -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 +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. @@ -63,5 +69,3 @@ claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose. Robert Roebling - -