X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/7ce4426ae301f4602264bd74e1a90e51751e1c0d..ecd87e5b71cdfd71b3356181ab8be1bf508942ef:/docs/gtk/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt index 6b29045711..8d964b59a3 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt @@ -1,42 +1,38 @@ - Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.5 + Welcome to wxWidgets 2.6 for GTK+ -You have downloaded version 2.5 of the GTK port of the -wxWindows GUI library. +You have downloaded version 2.6 of the GTK+ port of the +wxWidgets 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. +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+ 2.4.x and even +GTK 2.8.x are used. -More info about the wxWindows project (including the -Windows, X11/Motif and other ports) can be found at the main -wxWindows homepage at: +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.wxwindows.org + 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: - mkdir gtk - cd gtk - ../configure --with-gtk + mkdir build_gtk + cd build_gtk + ../configure --with-gtk=2 make su make install ldconfig -In order to use wxGTK with GTK 2.0 you need to use --enable-gtk2 +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. -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 @@ -51,21 +47,14 @@ 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, 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 -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. @@ -73,5 +62,3 @@ claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose. Robert Roebling - -