X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/e3a43801df2f05c057892481df9d3cfe30fd8800..65baafba0e8cd74f2264b7e2f7625ff5bea84864:/docs/gtk/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt index 9c48b90956..43ddd06918 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt @@ -1,53 +1,64 @@ - Welcome to wxWindows for GTK 1.0, + Welcome to wxWidgets 2.6 for GTK+ + +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. + +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 -you have downloaded the first beta version of the upcoming -release 2.0 of the GTK+ 1.0 port of wxWindows library. - Information on how to install can be found in the file INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on -all systems +many systems: + + mkdir build_gtk + cd build_gtk + ../configure --with-gtk=2 + 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. -configure -make -su (PASSWORD) -make install -ldconfig +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 + +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... - -This is the beta release which means that we have a feature -freeze. We'll move up to version 2.0 rather soon and from then -on there will be no more binary incompatible changes. We might -add more classes, but none that would alter the behaviour of -the existing ones. The library produced by the install process -of the final version will be called libwx_gtk_1_0.a (static) -and libwx_gtk_1_0.so.2.0.0 (shared) so that once a version -of wxWindows/Gtk for GTK 1.2 comes out we'll change the name -of the library to avoid linking problems. - -More information is available from my homepage at - - http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt - +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 either the wxGTK mailing list or to -the wxWindows developers 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. -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. +Do NOT send any comments directly to me. + +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 - -