1 Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK+ 2 ----------------------------- 3 4You have downloaded the GTK+ port of the wxWidgets GUI library. 5 6It is recommended to use at least GTK+ 2.2.3 to get the 7most out of wxWidgets and some features are only available 8when using GTK+ 2.4 or even from GTK+ 2.8. Note that if you 9compile wxWidgets against GTK+ 2.8 your app will still work 10with older GTK+ version down to version 2.2 as wxWidgets 11tests for the presence of newer features at run-time and it 12will fall back to a generic implementation if these features 13are not present in the GTK+ version used. 14 15wxWidgets 2.8 still supports GTK+ 1.2, but no developement 16is done on that port anymore and support for GTK+ 1.2 will 17probably be dropped entirely. Indeed, one of the major steps 18in the developement cycle leading up to wxWidgets 2.8 was 19that the codebase for GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2.0 were separated 20so that improvements and clean-ups to the GTK+ 2.0 port 21could be done without caring for GTK+ 1.2. 22 23More info about the wxWidgets project (including all the 24other ports and version of wxWidgets) can be found at the 25main wxWidgets homepage at: 26 27 http://www.wxwidgets.org/ 28 29Information on how to install can be found in the file 30INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on 31many systems: 32 33 mkdir build_gtk 34 cd build_gtk 35 ../configure 36 make 37 su <type root password> 38 make install 39 ldconfig 40 41In order to use wxGTK with GTK 1.2 you need to use --with-gtk=1 42configure option. To build the library in Unicode mode (all 43strings will be wide strings and so on) you need to configure 44with GTK 2.0 and add --enable-unicode. 45 46Please note that it is strongly advised to build the library in 47a separate directory, as shown above, as it allows you to have 48different builds of it (for example with and without debug) in 49parallel. If you build in the source directory, don't forget to 50do "make clean" before changing the configuration! 51 52When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and 53follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success, 54please send a bug report to one of our mailing list, INCLUDING 55A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR 56VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR 57WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried... 58 59Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests, 60bug reports or comments to the wxWidgets users list. These can 61be found at http://www.wxwidgets.org and more specifically at 62http://lists.wxwidgets.org. 63 64wxWidgets doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It 65might crash your harddisk or destroy your monitor. It doesn't 66claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose. 67 68 Regards, 69 70 Robert Roebling 71 72