Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk pre 2.2 you have downloaded a beta version of the GTK+ 1.2 port of the wxWindows GUI library. Although this is not yet the final stable release wxGTK 2.2, the current version has been tested carefully on many systems and has been found to work better than any other previous version. This is the a pre-release. wxWindows is now in a complete freeze and only vital bugs will be corrected. wxWindows no longer supports GTK 1.0 (as did some early snapshots) so that you will need GTK 1.2 when using it. GTK 1.2.7 is recommended although some programs will work with GTK 1.2.3 onwards. More information is available from my homepage at: http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt and about the wxWindows project as a whole (and the MSW and Motif ports in particular) can be found at Julian's homepage at: http://www.wxwindows.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: ./configure --with-gtk make su make install ldconfig exit 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... The library produced by the install process will be called libwx_gtk.a (static) and libwx_gtk-2.1.so.16.0.0 (shared) so that once a binary incompatible version of wxWindows/Gtk comes out we'll augment the library version number to avoid linking problems. Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests, bug reports or comments to the wxWindows users list. Information on how to subscribe is available from my homepage. Do NOT send any comments directly to me. wxWindows/Gtk 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