X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/88413fec06d896eb4499b7e2ecf7940b15ea9175..9d6a9fdd13ab25f0ac7c54a3ec8098f8b5c1d118:/docs/gtk/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt index 69fd183db0..bee4785719 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt @@ -1,43 +1,44 @@ - Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1.13 + Welcome to wxWidgets/Gtk 2.5 -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. +You have downloaded version 2.5 of the GTK+ port of the +wxWidgets GUI library. -Nonetheless, beware that major changes can happen before -a final release. +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. -wxWindows no longer supports GTK 1.0 (as did some early -snapshots) so that you will need GTK 1.2 when using it. +More info about the wxWidgets project (including all the +other ports and version of wxWidgets) can be found at the +main wxWidgets homepage at: -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 -and Motif ports in particular) can be found at Julian's -homepage at: - - http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin + 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 --with-gtk + make + su + make install + ldconfig + +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. + +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, @@ -46,17 +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) and libwx_gtk-2.1.so.13.0.0 (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/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. @@ -64,5 +62,3 @@ claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose. Robert Roebling - -