-wxWidgets 2.6 for GTK+ installation
+wxWidgets 2.7 for GTK+ installation
-----------------------------------
IMPORTANT NOTE:
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 2.6.3, gcc 3.4.5, Fedora Core 4
+ example: wxGTK 2.7.0, gcc 3.4.5, Fedora Core 4
* The simplest case
-------------------
make
cd ..
-Note that since wxWidgets-2.6.0 you can install all those libraries
-concurrently, you just need to pass the appropriate flags when using them.
+Note that you can install all those libraries concurrently, you just need to
+pass the appropriate flags when using them.
* The simplest errors
---------------------
+ Welcome to wxWidgets 2.7.0 for GTK+
+ -----------------------------------
- Welcome to wxWidgets 2.6 for GTK+
-
-You have downloaded version 2.6 of the GTK+ port of the
+You have downloaded version 2.7 of the GTK+ port of the
wxWidgets GUI library.
wxWidgets no longer supports GTK 1.0.x (as did some early
other ports and version of wxWidgets) can be found at the
main wxWidgets homepage at:
- http://www.wxwidgets.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
mkdir build_gtk
cd build_gtk
- ../configure --with-gtk=2
+ ../configure
make
su <type root password>
make install
When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWidgets you are
using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
- example: wxMGL 2.6.2, gcc 2.95.3, Redhat 7.0
+ example: wxMGL 2.7.0, gcc 2.95.3, Redhat 7.0
First steps
-----------
- Welcome to wxWidgets/MGL 2.6.2
+ Welcome to wxWidgets/MGL 2.7.0
-You have downloaded version 2.6.2 of the MGL port of
+You have downloaded version 2.7.0 of the MGL port of
the wxWidgets GUI library. This runs on top of SciTech MGL library
-(http://www.scitechsoft.com) that is available for variety of
+(http://www.scitechsoft.com/) that is available for variety of
operating systems and comes with support for embedded devices.
More information about the wxWidgets project as a whole
can be found at:
- http://www.wxwidgets.org
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/
Information on how to install can be found in the file
install.txt
-Installing wxWidgets 2.6.2
+Installing wxWidgets 2.7.0
-----------------------------------------------------------
-This is wxWidgets 2.6.2 for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT,
+This is wxWidgets 2.7.0 for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT,
Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows CE.
These installation notes can be found in docs/msw/install.txt
----------------------------------------------------------------
1. CodeWarrior Pro 7 project files in XML format are already
- included in wxMSW-2.6.2.zip and the setup version.
+ included in wxMSW-2.7.0.zip and the setup version.
2. Review the file include\wx\msw\setup.h (or include\wx\msw\setup0.h if
you are working from the CVS version) to make sure the settings reflect
-Installing wxWidgets 2.6.2
+Installing wxWidgets 2.7.0
--------------------------
-This is wxWidgets 2.6.2 for IBM OS/2 Warp3 and Warp4. This is an unstable
+This is wxWidgets 2.7.0 for IBM OS/2 Warp3 and Warp4. This is an unstable
development release and OS/2 is considered to be in beta.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you experience problems installing, please
At this time there is no comprehensive setup.exe type installation program.
wxWidgets for OS/2 requires you download various .zip files and unpack them
to your desired location on your system. Pick a location say,
-C:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2, copy the .zip files to there and unzip them ensuring you
+C:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0, copy the .zip files to there and unzip them ensuring you
unzip the subdirectories as well. You will need:
- All common, generic and OS2-specific wxWidgets source;
- PNG library source;
- ZLIB library source;
-All but the documentation is included in wxOS2-2.6.2.zip, documentation
+All but the documentation is included in wxOS2-2.7.0.zip, documentation
must be downloaded separately from the wxWidgets Web site.
Other add-on packages are available from the wxWidgets Web site, such as:
After unzipping everything your directory tree should look something like
this:
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\docs (your HTML reference manual)
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\include\wx
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\include\wx\generic
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\include\wx\html
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\include\wx\os2
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\samples\.... (all the sample directories)
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\common
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\generic
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\html
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\jpeg
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\os2
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\png
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\tiff
-x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\zlib
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\docs (your HTML reference manual)
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\include\wx
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\include\wx\generic
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\include\wx\html
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\include\wx\os2
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\samples\.... (all the sample directories)
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\src
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\src\common
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\src\generic
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\src\html
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\src\jpeg
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\src\os2
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\src\png
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\src\tiff
+x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\src\zlib
If you are using VisualAge, you will also need to ensure you have a
-\lib directory as well, x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\lib
+\lib directory as well, x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\lib
and you will have to set a WXWIN environment variable in your
config.sys,
-SET WXWIN=X:\WX\WXWINDOWS-2.6.2;
+SET WXWIN=X:\WX\WXWINDOWS-2.7.0;
Compilation
-----------
update) e.g. wxGTK or wxX11 as well.
In the following, let's assume you decided to build in
-\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\build\pm. Now we need to set some environment
+\wx\wxWidgets-2.7.0\build\pm. Now we need to set some environment
variables, namely MAKESHELL (to a Unix like shell, let's assume ash)
and INSTALL (to point to the install script. If you omit this, configure
might find something like the system's tcpip\pcomos\install.exe which will
not do the thing you want), e.g.
SET MAKESHELL=ash
-SET INSTALL=/wx/wxWidgets-2.6.2/install-sh -c
+SET INSTALL=/wx/wxWidgets-2.7.0/install-sh -c
Be warned that depending on the precise version of your make, the
variable that needs to be set might be MAKE_SHELL instead of MAKESHELL.
essentially have to use the procedure described above, the only difference
being that you have to pass a switch to configure indicating which port
to build. If you do not do this in a separate build directory (e.g.
-\wxWidgets-2.6.2\build\gtk), you'll have to do a `make clean' first.
+\wxWidgets-2.7.0\build\gtk), you'll have to do a `make clean' first.
The magical switches that have to be passed to configure for the various
ports are --with-gtk (wxGTK), --with-motif (wxMotif), --with-x11 (wxX11),
and --disable-gui (wxBase). Note that contrary to the native, PM based
Beware, its installation takes about 500Mb (+ 150 Mb of cygwin if not installed
yet), so make sure you have enough disk space for it and for wxWidgets build
-tree (another 50Mb). Last tested set: PODS 1.2, SDK 6.1, wxWidgets 2.6.2.
+tree (another 50Mb). Last tested set: PODS 1.2, SDK 6.1, wxWidgets 2.7.0.
The Developer Studio is Eclipse-based and so is a GUI environment, however it
is also possible to build Palm applications from the command line using the
-Announcing wxWidgets 2.6.1: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
+Announcing wxWidgets 2.7.0: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
----------------------------------------------------------------
-June 5th, 2005 -- the wxWidgets team is pleased to announce
-a new official release of the mature cross-platform C++
-application framework.
+August 5th, 2006 -- the wxWidgets team is pleased to announce
+a new release of the mature cross-platform C++ application framework.
The following platforms are supported:
- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
+- Windows 64 on Itanium and x86-64 architectures
- Windows CE, including Pocket PC 2003 and Smartphone 2003
-- Linux/Unix/VMS with GTK+ 1.x and 2.0
-- Linux/Unix with X11 (beta)
-- Linux/Unix with Motif/Lesstif
-- Mac OS 9.x and 10.2 and above using Carbon
-- Mac OS 10.x using Cocoa (beta)
+- Unix (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64) and VMS with GTK+
+- Unix with X11 (beta)
+- Unix with Motif/Lesstif
+- Mac OS X using Carbon
+- Mac OS X using Cocoa (beta)
- OS/2 (beta)
- MGL for Linux and DOS
- Palm OS (alpha)
-A non-GUI subset of wxWidgets called wxBase is also supported
-on most of these platforms.
-
-To get wxWidgets, go to the Download page at:
-
- http://www.wxwidgets.org
-
-Since 2.4.2, we have added support for Windows Mobile devices,
-enhanced GTK+ 2 support, radically overhauled the Mac OS X port,
-replaced the build system with Bakefile, added better
-integration with STL, and added a CppUnit-based test suite.
-Other changes include sizer improvements, new Gnome printing
-features, ODBC enhancements such as BLOB support and Unicode
-support on Windows, wxTaskBarIcon support on Mac OS X and Linux
-as well as Windows, top-level windows can have arbitrary shapes,
-images can have alpha channels, plus many API enhancements and
-bug fixes to existing classes. New classes include
-wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox, wxHtmlListbox,
-wxPropertySheetDialog, wxGridBagSizer, wxMediaCtrl,
-wxDatePickerCtrl, wxArchiveInputStream/wxArchiveOutputStream
-(including zip archive read/write support), wxListbook,
-wxChoicebook, wxDebugReport, and more.
+To get wxWidgets, please go to the Download page at:
+
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/
+
+This is the first version in the new 2.7 series. Please notice
+that this series is called "development" and not "stable" solely
+because compatibility is not assured among between different 2.7
+series versions but there are no known issues with the stability
+of the programs using this version.
+
+There have been many changes since the 2.6 series, please see the
+change log file included in the distribution for more details. The
+most significant additions to the GUI part of the libraries were:
+
+ - AUI (advanced user interface) library providing dockable
+ windows and much more
+ - richtext library implementing wxRichTextCtrl
+ - New wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox controls
+ - New wxTreebook book-like control
+ - New wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls
+ - wxHyperlinkCtrl control
+
*** About wxWidgets
reassuringly familiar, while often clearer and more consistent.
If you're not, you should still find it intuitive from the start.
-wxWidgets bindings for several other languages are available,
+wxWidgets bindings for many other languages are available,
including Python, Perl, Basic, Lua, JavaScript and Eiffel.
If you're considering wxWidgets, do check out some of these links:
- http://www.wxwidgets.org/feedback.htm ; Comments from users
- http://www.wxwidgets.org/screensh.htm ; Screenshots
- http://www.wxwidgets.org/users.htm ; A list of some of our
- ; users
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/feedback.htm ; Comments from users
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screensh.htm ; Screenshots
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/users.htm ; Some of our users
Have fun!
-wxWidgets 2.6.2
+wxWidgets 2.7.0
---------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to wxWidgets, a sophisticated cross-platform C++
file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details.
See also http://www.wxwidgets.org/platform.htm.
-The 2.6 series is the last to fully support GTK+ 1.2, and Mac OS
-9/Mac OS 10.2 and below. wxWidgets 2.7 and above will focus on
-GTK+ 2, and Mac OS 10.3 and above.
+Note that 2.6 series were the last to fully support GTK+ 1.2, and Mac OS
+9/Mac OS 10.2 and below. wxWidgets 2.7 and above focuses on GTK+ 2 and Mac OS
+10.3 and above and compatibility with earlier systems is not guaranteed any
+more.
Files
-----
-wxWidgets 2.6.1 for X11 installation
+wxWidgets 2.7.0 for X11 installation
------------------------------------
IMPORTANT NOTE:
When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWidgets you are
using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
- example: wxX11 2.6.1, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
+ example: wxX11 2.7.0, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
First steps
-----------
- Welcome to wxWidgets/X11 2.6.1
+ Welcome to wxWidgets/X11 2.7.0
-You have downloaded version 2.6.1 of the X11 port of
+You have downloaded version 2.7.0 of the X11 port of
the wxWidgets GUI library. This runs on X11 with no
Motif, Xt, GTK+ or any other standard widget set --
instead it uses the wxUniversal widgets. The intention
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