wxgtk port

wxgtk is a port of wxwidgets using the gtk+ library. it makes use of gtk+'s native widgets wherever possible and uses wxwidgets' generic controls when needed. gtk+ itself has been ported to a number of systems, but so far only the original x11 version is supported. support for other gtk+ backends is planned, such as the new directfb backend.

all work is being done on gtk+ version 2.0 and above. support for gtk+ 1.2 will be deprecated in a later release.

you will need gtk+ 2.0 or higher which is available from:

http://www.gtk.org

the newer version of gtk+ you use, the more native widgets and features will be utilized. we have gone to a great extent to allow compiling wxwidgets applications with a latest version of gtk+, with the resulting binary working on systems even with a much lower version of gtk+. you will have to ensure that the application is launched with lazy symbol binding for that.

in order to configure wxwidgets to compile wxgtk you will need use the --with-gtk argument to the configure script. this is the default for many systems.

gtk+ 1.2 can still be used, albeit discouraged. for that you can pass --with-gtk=1 to the configure script.

for further information, please see the files in docs/gtk in the distribution.