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  1. Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK+
  2. -----------------------------
  3. You have downloaded the GTK+ port of the wxWidgets GUI library.
  4. It is required to use at least GTK+ 2.6 and some features are
  5. only available when using GTK+ 2.10 or higher. Note that even if
  6. you compile wxWidgets against a later GTK+ version, your application
  7. will still work with older GTK+ version down to version 2.6 as wxWidgets
  8. tests for the presence of newer features at run-time and it
  9. will fall back to a generic implementation if these features
  10. are not present in the GTK+ version used.
  11. wxWidgets 2.9.4 adds support for GTK+ 3, which can be enabled
  12. with configure option --with-gtk=3.
  13. wxWidgets 2.8 still supports GTK+ 1.2, but no development
  14. is done on that port anymore and support for GTK+ 1.2 will
  15. probably be dropped entirely. Indeed, one of the major steps
  16. in the development cycle leading up to wxWidgets 2.8 was
  17. that the codebase for GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2.0 were separated
  18. so that improvements and clean-ups to the GTK+ 2.0 port
  19. could be done without caring for GTK+ 1.2.
  20. More info about the wxWidgets project (including all the
  21. other ports and version of wxWidgets) can be found at the
  22. main wxWidgets homepage at:
  23. http://www.wxwidgets.org/
  24. Information on how to install can be found in the file
  25. INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
  26. many systems:
  27. mkdir build_gtk
  28. cd build_gtk
  29. ../configure
  30. make
  31. su <type root password>
  32. make install
  33. ldconfig
  34. In order to use wxGTK with GTK 1.2 you need to use --with-gtk=1
  35. configure option. To build the library in Unicode mode (all
  36. strings will be wide strings and so on) you need to configure
  37. with GTK 2.0 and add --enable-unicode.
  38. Please note that it is strongly advised to build the library in
  39. a separate directory, as shown above, as it allows you to have
  40. different builds of it (for example with and without debug) in
  41. parallel. If you build in the source directory, don't forget to
  42. do "make clean" before changing the configuration!
  43. When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and
  44. follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success,
  45. please send a bug report to one of our mailing list, INCLUDING
  46. A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR
  47. VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR
  48. WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
  49. Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests,
  50. bug reports or comments to the wxWidgets users list. These can
  51. be found at http://www.wxwidgets.org and more specifically at
  52. http://lists.wxwidgets.org.
  53. wxWidgets doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It
  54. might crash your harddisk or destroy your monitor. It doesn't
  55. claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose.
  56. Regards,
  57. Robert Roebling