Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK+ ----------------------------- You have downloaded the GTK+ port of the wxWidgets GUI library. It is required to use at least GTK+ 2.6 and some features are only available when using GTK+ 2.10 or higher. Note that even if you compile wxWidgets against a later GTK+ version, your application will still work with older GTK+ version down to version 2.6 as wxWidgets tests for the presence of newer features at run-time and it will fall back to a generic implementation if these features are not present in the GTK+ version used. wxWidgets 2.9.4 adds support for GTK+ 3, which can be enabled with configure option --with-gtk=3. wxWidgets 2.8 still supports GTK+ 1.2, but no development is done on that port anymore and support for GTK+ 1.2 will probably be dropped entirely. Indeed, one of the major steps in the development cycle leading up to wxWidgets 2.8 was that the codebase for GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2.0 were separated so that improvements and clean-ups to the GTK+ 2.0 port could be done without caring for GTK+ 1.2. More info about the wxWidgets project (including all the other ports and version of wxWidgets) can be found at the main wxWidgets homepage at: https://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 many systems: mkdir build_gtk cd build_gtk ../configure 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. 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 follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success, 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 the wxWidgets users list. These can be found at https://www.wxwidgets.org/support/mailing-lists/ 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