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@@ -1,496 +1,458 @@
+wxWidgets for GTK+ installation
+-------------------------------
 
-  !!! When sending bug reports tell us what version of
-      wxWindows you are using (including the beta) and
-      what compiler on what system. One example:
-      wxGTK 2.1 beta 6, egcs 1.1.1, Redhat 5.0 !!!
+IMPORTANT NOTE:
 
-* The most simple case
------------------------
+  If you experience problems installing, please re-read these
+  instructions and other related files (todo.txt, bugs.txt and
+  osname.txt for your platform if it exists) carefully before
+  mailing wxwin-users or the author. Preferably, try to fix the
+  problem first and then send a patch to the author.
+
+  When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWidgets you are
+  using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
+  example: wxGTK 2.8.0, gcc 3.4.5, Fedora Core 4
+
+* The simplest case
+-------------------
+
+If you compile wxWidgets on Linux for the first time and don't like to read
+install instructions just do (in the base dir):
+
+> mkdir buildgtk
+> cd buildgtk
+> ../configure --with-gtk
+> make
+> su <type root password>
+> make install
+> ldconfig
+[if you get "ldconfig: command not found", try using "/sbin/ldconfig"]
+
+If you don't do the 'make install' part, you can still use the libraries from
+the buildgtk directory, but they may not be available to other users.
 
-If you compile wxWindows on Unix for the first time and don't 
-like to read install instructions just do (in the base dir):
+If you want to remove wxWidgets on Unix you can do this:
 
-./configure
+> su <type root password>
+> make uninstall
+> ldconfig
+
+Note that by default, GTK+ 2.X is used. GTK+ 1.2 can be specified
+with --with-gtk=1.
+
+* The expert case
+-----------------
+
+If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWidgets,
+such as for GTK+ and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use
+them concurrently. To do this, create a separate directory for each build
+of wxWidgets - you may also want to create different versions of wxWidgets
+and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured
+with --enable-debug and one without.
+
+For building three versions (one GTK+, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK
+source) you'd do this:
+
+mkdir buildmotif
+cd buildmotif
+../configure --with-motif
 make
-su <type root password>
-make install
-ldconfig
-exit
+cd ..
 
-If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this:
+mkdir buildgtk
+cd buildgtk
+../configure --with-gtk
+make
+cd ..
 
-su <type root password>
-make uninstall
-ldconfif
-exit
+mkdir buildgtkd
+cd buildgtkd
+../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug
+make
+cd ..
 
-* The most simple errors
-------------------------
+Note that you can install all those libraries concurrently, you just need to
+pass the appropriate flags when using them.
 
-configure reports, that you don't have GTK 1.X installed
-although you are certainly sure you have. Well, you have
-installed it, but you also have another version of the
-GTK installed, which you may need to removed including
-other versions of glib (and its headers). Also, look
-for the PATH variable and check if it includes the path
-to the correct gtk-config! The check your LDPATH if 
-it points to the correct library. There is no way to
-compile wxGTK if configure doesn't pass this test as
-all this test does is compile and link a GTK program.
-
-You get errors during compilation: The reason is that you
-probably have a broken compiler, which includes almost
-everything that is called gcc. If you use gcc 2.8 you
-have to disable optimsation as the compiler will give
-up with an internal compiler error.
-
-If there is just any way for you to use egcs, use egcs. 
-We are sorry, but we cannot fix gcc.
-
-You get immediate segfault when starting any sample
-or application: This is _always_ due to having compiled
-the library with different flags or options than your
-program. Typically you might have the __WXDEBUG__ option
-set for the library but not for your program.
-
-* The most simple program
--------------------------
-
-Now create your super-application myfoo.app and compile anywhere 
-with
-
-g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cflags` -o myfoo
-
-* General
------------------------
+* The simplest errors
+---------------------
+
+For any configure errors: please look at config.log file which was generated
+during configure run, it usually contains some useful information.
+
+configure reports, that you don't have GTK+ 1.2/2.0 installed although you are
+very sure you have. Well, you have installed it, but you also have another
+version of the GTK+ installed, which you may need to remove including other
+versions of glib (and its headers). Or maybe you installed it in a non-default
+location and configure can't find it there, so please check that your PATH
+variable includes the path to the correct gtk-config/pkg-config. Also check
+that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent variable contains the path to GTK+
+libraries if they were installed in a non-default location.
+
+You get errors from make: please use GNU make instead of the native make
+program. Currently wxWidgets can be built only with GNU make, BSD make and
+Solaris make. Other versions might work or not (any which don't have VPATH
+support definitely won't).
+
+You get errors during compilation: The reason is that you probably have a
+broken compiler.  GCC 2.8 and earlier versions and egcs are likely to cause
+problems due to incomplete support for C++ and optimisation bugs.  Best to use
+GCC 2.95 or later.
 
-The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have 
-problems with your make use GNU make instead.
+You get immediate segfault when starting any sample or application: This is
+either due to having compiled the library with different flags or options than
+your program - typically you might have the __WXDEBUG__ option set for the
+library but not for your program - or due to using a compiler with optimisation
+bugs.
 
-If you have general problems with installation, read my 
-homepage at 
+* The simplest program
+----------------------
 
-  http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
-  
-for newest information. 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...
+Now create your super-application myfoo.cpp and compile anywhere with
+
+g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cxxflags` -o myfoo
 
 * GUI libraries
------------------------
+---------------
 
-wxWindows/GTK requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system.
-It has to be a stable version, preferebly version 1.2.3. You can use
-GTK 1.0 in connection with wxWindows, but only without Drag'n'Drop.
-wxWindows does work with the 1.1.X versions of the GTK+ library.
+wxWidgets/GTK+ requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system. It has
+to be a stable version, preferably GTK+ 2.x.y, where x is an even number.
+GTK+ version 1.2 is highly discouraged, but if you decide to still use it,
+please use version 1.2.10 (at least 1.2.3 is required, 1.2.7 is strongly recommended).
+
+You can get the newest version of the GTK+ from the GTK+ homepage at:
 
-You can get the newest version of the GTK+ from the GTK homepage
-at
   http://www.gtk.org
-  
-We also mirror GTK+ 1.2.1 at my ftp site soon. You'll find information
-about downloading at my homepage.
-  
+
+We also mirror GTK+ at my ftp site. You'll find information about downloading
+at my homepage.
+
 * Additional libraries
------------------------
+----------------------
+
+wxWidgets/Gtk requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with
+threads.  This is the case on all commercial Unix-Variants and all
+Linux-Versions that are based on glibc 2 except RedHat 5.0 which is broken in
+many aspects. As of writing this, virtually all Linux distributions have
+correct glibc 2 support.
 
-wxWindows/Gtk requires a thread library and X libraries
-known to work with threads. This is the case on all
-commercial Unix-Variants and all Linux-Versions that
-are based on glibc 2 except RedHat 5.0 which is broken
-in many aspects. As of writing this, these Linux 
-distributions have correct glibc 2 support:
-
- - RedHat 5.1
- - Debian 2.0
- - Stampede
- - DLD 6.0
- - SuSE 6.0
- 
-You can disable thread support by running 
-
-./configure "--disable-threads"
+You can disable thread support by running
+
+./configure --disable-threads
 make
 su <type root password>
 make install
 ldconfig
 exit
-  
-NB: DO NOT COMPILE WXGTK WITH GCC AND THREADS, SINCE
-ALL PROGRAMS WILL CRASH UPON START-UP! Just always
-use egcs and be happy.
-
-* Create your configuration
------------------------------
 
-Usage:
-	./configure options
-
-If you want to use system's C and C++ compiler,
-set environment variables CC and CCC as
+* Building wxGTK on OS/2
+------------------------
 
-	% setenv CC cc
-	% setenv CCC CC
-	% ./configure options
+Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation
+to Stefan Neis <Stefan.Neis@t-online.de> and patches to
+the wxWidgets mailing list.
+
+In the following list, the version numbers indicate the configuration that
+was actually used by myself, newer version should cause no problems and
+even older ones are expected to work most of the time.
+
+You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.51) or eCS(1.0), X-Free86/2 (3.3.6 or newer),
+GTK+ (1.2.5 or newer), emx (0.9d fix 4), a Unix like shell (pdksh-5.2.14 or
+ash), Autoconf (2.57), GNU file utilities (3.13), GNU text utilities (1.19),
+GNU shell utilites (1.12), m4 (1.4), sed (2.05), grep (2.0), Awk (3.0.3),
+GNU Make (3.75).
+
+Preferably, you should have Posix/2 installed and C(PLUS)_INCLUDE_PATH and
+LIBRARY_PATH set up accordingly, however, wxGTK will even work without it.
+Presence of Posix/2 will be auto-detected.
+
+Open an OS/2 prompt and switch to the directory above.
+Set MAKESHELL or MAKE_SHELL (which one is needed depends on the version of
+make) to a Unix like shell, e.g.
+SET MAKESHELL=ash
+If you have a really deficient version of GNU make, it might even be
+necessary to set SHELL or even COMSPEC to a unix like shell as well. 
+Depending on your installation you might want to also set INSTALL, for me
+it tends to try to use the system's tcpip\pcomos\install.exe which causes
+problems, e.g.
+SET INSTALL=<path_to_src_directory>/install-sh -c
+
+Notice that the delivered configure scripts are fully OS/2 aware, so you
+can simply run
+    ash -c "configure --with-gtk=1"
+and make and possibly make install as described above.
+
+* Building wxGTK on SGI
+-----------------------
 
 Using the SGI native compilers, it is recommended that you
-also set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS before running configure. These 
+also set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS before running configure. These
 should be set to :
 
-CFLAGS="-mips3 -n32" 
+CFLAGS="-mips3 -n32"
 CXXFLAGS="-mips3 -n32"
 
-This is essential if you want to use the resultant binaries 
-on any other machine than the one it was compiled on. If you 
-have a 64bit machine (Octane) you should also do this to ensure 
-you don't accidently build the libraries as 64bit (which is 
+This is essential if you want to use the resultant binaries
+on any other machine than the one it was compiled on. If you
+have a 64bit machine (Octane) you should also do this to ensure
+you don't accidently build the libraries as 64bit (which is
 untested).
 
 The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5.
 
-to see all the options please use:
+* Building wxGTK on Cygwin
+--------------------------
+
+The normal build instructions should work fine on Cygwin. The one difference
+with Cygwin is that when using the "--enable-shared" configure option (which
+is the default) the API is exported explicitly using __declspec(dllexport)
+rather than all global symbols being available.
+
+This shouldn't make a difference using the library and should be a little
+more efficient. However if an export attribute has been missed somewhere you
+will see linking errors. If this happens then you can work around the
+problem by setting LDFLAGS=-Wl,--export-all-symbols. Please also let us know
+about it on the wx-dev mailing list.
 
-	./configure --help
+* Create your configuration
+---------------------------
+
+Usage:
+    ./configure options
 
-The basic philosophy is that if you want to use different
-configurations, like a debug and a release version, 
-or use the same source tree on different systems,
-you have only to change the environment variable OSTYPE.
-(Sadly this variable is not set by default on some systems
-in some shells - on SGI's for example). So you will have to 
-set it there. This variable HAS to be set before starting 
-configure, so that it knows which system it tries to 
-configure for.
+If you want to use system's C and C++ compiler,
+set environment variables CC and CXX as
+
+    % setenv CC cc
+    % setenv CXX CC
+    % ./configure [options]
 
-Configure will complain if the system variable OSTYPE has 
-not been defined. And Make in some circumstances as well...
+to see all the options please use:
+
+    ./configure --help
+
+It is recommended to build wxWidgets in another directory (maybe a
+subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation) as this allows you to
+have multiple configurations (for example, debug and release or GTK
+and Motif) simultaneously.
 
 
 * General options
--------------------
+-----------------
 
-         !!  DON'T USE YET !!
+Given below are the commands to change the default behaviour,
+i.e. if it says "--disable-threads" it means that threads
+are enabled by default.
 
 Normally, you won't have to choose a toolkit, because when
 you download wxGTK, it will default to --with-gtk etc. But
-if you use all of our CVS repository you have to choose a 
+if you use all of our SVN repository you have to choose a
 toolkit. You must do this by running configure with either of:
 
-        --with-gtk               Use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK)
-	
-	--with-motif             Use either Motif or Lesstif
-	                         Configure will look for both. 
+    --with-gtk=2            Use the GTK+ 2.0. Default.
+    --with-gtk=1            Use the GTK+ 1.2.
+    --with-motif            Use either Motif or Lesstif
+                            Configure will look for both.
 
 The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
 
-	--with-threads          Compile with thread support. Threads
-	                        support is also required for the
-				socket code to work.
-
-	--without-shared        Do not create shared libraries.
-
-	--without-optimise	Do not optimise the code. Can
-	                        sometimes be useful for debugging
-				and is required on some architectures
-				such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which
-				would otherwise produce segvs.
-
-	--with-profile          Add profiling info to the object 
-				files. Currently broken, I think.
-				
-	--with-mem_tracing      Add built-in memory tracing. 
-				
-	--with-dmalloc          Use the dmalloc memory debugger.
-	                        Read more at www.letters.com/dmalloc/
-				
-	--with-debug_info	Add debug info to object files and
-	                        executables for use with debuggers
-				such as gdb (or its many frontends).
-
-	--with-debug_flag	Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
-	                        compiling. This enable wxWindows' very
-				useful internal debugging tricks (such
-				as automatically reporting illegal calls)
-				to work. Note that program and library
-				must be compiled with the same debug 
-				options.
+    --disable-threads       Compile without thread support.
 
-* Feature Options
--------------------
+    --disable-shared        Do not create shared libraries, but
+                            build static libraries instead.
+
+    --enable-monolithic     Build wxWidgets as single library instead
+                            of as several smaller libraries (which is
+                            the default since wxWidgets 2.5.0).
+
+    --disable-optimise      Do not optimise the code. Can
+                            sometimes be useful for debugging
+                            and is required on some architectures
+                            such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which
+                            would otherwise produce segvs.
+
+    --enable-unicode        Enable Unicode support.
+
+    --enable-profile        Add profiling info to the object
+                            files. Currently broken, I think.
+
+    --enable-no_rtti        Enable compilation without creation of
+                            C++ RTTI information in object files.
+                            This will speed-up compilation and reduce
+                            binary size.
+
+    --enable-no_exceptions  Enable compilation without creation of
+                            C++ exception information in object files.
+                            This will speed-up compilation and reduce
+                            binary size. Also fewer crashes during the
+                            actual compilation...
+
+    --enable-no_deps        Enable compilation without creation of
+                            dependency information.
+
+    --enable-permissive     Enable compilation without checking for strict
+                            ANSI conformance.  Useful to prevent the build
+                            dying with errors as soon as you compile with
+                            Solaris' ANSI-defying headers.
 
-         !!  DON'T USE YET !!
+    --enable-mem_tracing    Add built-in memory tracing.
+
+    --enable-dmalloc        Use the dmalloc memory debugger.
+                            Read more at www.letters.com/dmalloc/
+
+    --enable-debug_info     Add debug info to object files and
+                            executables for use with debuggers
+                            such as gdb (or its many frontends).
+
+    --enable-debug_flag     Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
+                            compiling. This enable wxWidgets' very
+                            useful internal debugging tricks (such
+                            as automatically reporting illegal calls)
+                            to work. Note that program and library
+                            must be compiled with the same debug
+                            options.
+
+    --enable-debug          Same as --enable-debug_info and
+                            --enable-debug_flag together. Unless you have
+                            some very specific needs, you should use this
+                            option instead of --enable-debug_info/flag ones
+                            separately.
+
+* Feature Options
+-----------------
 
 When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxGTK
 you'll be surprised at its immense size. This can sometimes be
-drastically reduced by removing features from wxWindows that 
+drastically reduced by removing features from wxWidgets that
 are not used in your program. The most relevant such features
 are
 
-	--without-libpng	Disables PNG image format code.
-	
-	--without-libjpeg	Disables JPEG image format code.
-	
-	--without-odbc          Disables ODBC code.
-	
-        --without-wxresources   Disables the use of *.wxr type
-	                        resources.
-		
-	--without-threads       Disables threads. Will also
-	                        disable sockets.
-
-	--without-sockets       Disables sockets.
-
-	--without-dnd           Disables Drag'n'Drop.
-	
-	--without-clipboard     Disables Clipboard.
-	
-	--without-serial        Disables object instance serialiasation.
-	
-	--without-streams       Disables the wxStream classes.
-	
+    --with-odbc             Enables ODBC code. This is disabled
+                            by default because iODBC is under the
+                            L-GPL license which is less liberal than
+                            wxWidgets license.
+
+    --without-libpng        Disables PNG image format code.
+
+    --without-libjpeg       Disables JPEG image format code.
+
+    --without-libtiff       Disables TIFF image format code.
+
+    --without-expat         Disable XML classes based on Expat parser.
+
+    --disable-pnm           Disables PNM image format code.
+
+    --disable-gif           Disables GIF image format code.
+
+    --disable-pcx           Disables PCX image format code.
+
+    --disable-iff           Disables IFF image format code.
+
+    --disable-resources     Disables the use of *.wxr type resources.
+
+    --disable-threads       Disables threads. Will also disable sockets.
+
+    --disable-sockets       Disables sockets.
+
+    --disable-dnd           Disables Drag'n'Drop.
+
+    --disable-clipboard     Disables Clipboard.
+
+    --disable-serial        Disables object instance serialisation.
+
+    --disable-streams       Disables the wxStream classes.
+
+    --disable-file          Disables the wxFile class.
+
+    --disable-textfile      Disables the wxTextFile class.
+
+    --disable-intl          Disables the internationalisation.
+
+    --disable-validators    Disables validators.
+
+    --disable-accel         Disables accelerators support.
+
 Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip"
 the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant
 reduction in size.
 
+Please see the output of "./configure --help" for comprehensive list
+of all configurable options.
+
+
 * Compiling
--------------
+-----------
 
 The following must be done in the base directory (e.g. ~/wxGTK
 or ~/wxWin or whatever)
 
-Now the makefiles are created (by configure) and you can compile 
+Now the makefiles are created (by configure) and you can compile
 the library by typing:
 
-	make
+    make
 
 make yourself some coffee, as it will take some time. On an old
-386SX possibly week. During compilation, you'll get a few 
+386SX possibly two weeks. During compilation, you'll get a few
 warning messages depending in your compiler.
 
-if you want to be more selective, you can change into a specific
-directiry and type "make" there.
+If you want to be more selective, you can change into a specific
+directory and type "make" there.
 
-Then you may install the library and it's header files under
+Then you may install the library and its header files under
 /usr/local/include/wx and /usr/local/lib respectively. You
 have to log in as root (i.e. run "su" and enter the root
 password) and type
 
-        make install	
+        make install
 
-You can remove any traces of wxWindows by typing
+You can remove any traces of wxWidgets by typing
 
         make uninstall
-	
+
 If you want to save disk space by removing unnecessary
 object-files:
 
-	 make clean
+make clean
 
 in the various directories will do the work for you.
 
 * Creating a new Project
 --------------------------
 
-There are two ways to create your own project:
-
 1) The first way uses the installed libraries and header files
 automatically using wx-config
 
-g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs` `wx-config --cflags` -o myfoo
+g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --cxxflags --libs` -o myfoo
 
 Using this way, a make file for the minimal sample would look
 like this
 
-CC = g++
+CC = gcc
 
 minimal: minimal.o
-    $(CC) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs` 
+	$(CC) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
 
 minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
-    $(CC) `wx-config --cflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
+	$(CC) `wx-config --cxxflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
 
-clean: 
+clean:
 	rm -f *.o minimal
 
-This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
-to sitch to tmake.
+If your application uses only some of wxWidgets libraries, you can
+specify required libraries when running wx-config. For example,
+`wx-config --libs=html,core` will only output link command to link
+with libraries required by core GUI classes and wxHTML classes. See
+the manual for more information on the libraries.
 
-2) The other way creates a project within the source code 
-directories of wxWindows. For this endeavour, you'll need
-the usual number of GNU tools, at least
+2) The other way creates a project within the source code
+directories of wxWidgets. For this endeavour, you'll need
+GNU autoconf version 2.14 and add an entry to your Makefile.in
+to the bottom of the configure.in script and run autoconf
+and configure before you can type make.
 
-GNU automake version 1.4
-GNU autoheader version 2.14
-GNU autoconf version 2.14
-
-and quite possibly 
-
-GNU make
-GNU cc
-
-and if you have all this then you probably know enough to
-go ahead yourself :-)
-
-** Something about Makefiles
-------------------------------
-
-On general principle it should only contain ONE line, which is as follows:
-
-	include ../../setup/general/makeapp
-
-this will include all the necessary definitions for creating the applications
-
-the only case where you might want to add another line is the following:
-this version of configure also supports creation of source archives of the
-application for easy distribution and updates to newer version of wxWindows.
-    For this purpose all files in the application-directory will be put into
-a gziped tar-file in the full notation user/<your application>/*
-if you want to include some other files that you want "more visible", like
-a README.<yourApp> or a shell script for easy 
-compilation/installation/distribution, then you have to add a variable
-
-	DISTRIBUTE_ADDITIONAL=<your files>
-
-to the Makefile.
-So it would look like this:
-
-	DISTRIBUTE_ADDITIONAL=README.TheApp
-	include ../../setup/general/makeapp
-
-As we have already talked about distribution the command to create a 
-distribution is:
-
-	make distrib
-
-NOTE: If you are in the base directory of wxWindows it will create 
-distribution packages for wxWindows as well as for all packages in the
-user directory.
-    So if you want to create only packages for the files in user,
-then go to the directory other and type:
-
-	make distrib
-
-or if you only want one application to be created then
-enter the specific directory and type there:
-make distrib
-
-All the distribution files will be put in the directory
-distrib at the base of the wxWindows-tree (where also configure
-and template.mak can be found).
-
-** Something about Makefile.in
---------------------------------
-
-As you have already seen with Makefile, configure makes a lot of use
-if the include statement in make to keep the Makefiles as simple as 
-possible.
-
-So basically there are only variables to define and then a include command.
-Exception to this rule is if you have special rules for some stuff...
-These rules should go AFTER the include statement!!!
-
-so the general header looks like this:
-
-	# wxWindows base directory
-	WXBASEDIR=@WXBASEDIR@
-	# set the OS type for compilation
-	OS=@OS@
-	# compile a library only
-	RULE=bin
-
-and the general footer will look like this:
-
-	# include the definitions now
-	include ../../../template.mak
-
-the key variable is RULE, which defines what make should create
-in this directory.
-
-here are some examples:
-
-  RULE	  description              
-  ===========================================================================
-  bin	  creates a local binary (for a global binary prefix bin with g)
-  	  additional variables needed:
-  		BIN_TARGET	this gives the name of your application
-  		BIN_OBJ		this gives the object files needed to
-  				link the application
-  	  optional variables are:
-  		BIN_SRC		this gives the list of c/c++ files for
-  				which dependencies will be checked.
-  				(This can be achieved with: make depend)
-  		BIN_LINK	this gives commands for additional
-  				libraries needed to link the application
-  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  bin2	  creates two local binaries (for global binaries prefix bin2 with g)
-  	  in addition to the variables specified above you MUST also
-  	  provide the same variables with BIN2_ instead of BIN_
-  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  lib	  creates a local library (for a global binary prefix bin with g)
-  	  additional variables needed:
-  		LIB_TARGET	this gives the name of your library
-  		LIB_OBJ		this gives the object files needed for
-  				the library to be build.
-  	  optional variables are:
-  		LIB_SRC		this gives the list of c/c++ files for
-  				which dependencies will be checked.
-  	  libbin and libgbin are also possible and will need in addition
-  	  the variables from bin
-  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  gslib	  is similar to lib, but it creates a shared library if the system
-  	  supports it.
-  	  additional variables needed:
-  		LIB_MAJOR	major number of the shared library
-  		LIB_MINOR	minor number of the shared library
-  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  other additional variables:
-
-  	  ADD_COMPILE	   define additional includes/defines that
-  			   are needed to compile the object files
-  			   (if you need to reference some directory
-  			   utils - like wxGrid -, then please 
-  			   reference them with the variables defined
-  			   in template.mak - e.g.: $(SRCDIR),$(UTILS),
-  			   $(SAMPLES),$(OTHERS))
-
-  	  NEEDED_DEFINES   lists all the defines that HAVE to be set in
-  			   /include/wx/setup.h to compile correctly.
-
-	  SRC_DIR	   lists all directories that are needed to
-			   compile. (i.e: lists all the directories,
-			   where there are source-files.) But it is 
-			   also needed to clean an object and for 
-			   machines, for which make does not support 
-			   VPATH
-
-currently there are the following compiling rules provided:
-object files are created for the following file extensions:
-.c .cc .cpp
-
-Please have a closer look at the Makefiles in this distribution.
-
-* Platforms configure is working with
----------------------------------------
-
-Please report build succes on any machine. Especially non-
-Linux operating systems (which I don't have).
-
-Original author of the autoconf system for wxxt-1.66 and for this INSTALL
-file:
-
-	Martin Sperl	sperl@dsn.ast.univie.ac.at
-	
-Ported to wxGTK 0.1:
-
-	Wolfram Gloger  wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
-
-Thanks alot to both of them.
+----------------------
 
 In the hope that it will be useful,
 
-        Robert Roebling roebling@sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de
-	
-	
+        Robert Roebling
+