Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.5 You have downloaded version 2.5 of the GTK port of the wxWindows GUI library. wxWindows no longer supports GTK 1.0 (as did some early snapshots) so that you will need GTK 1.2 when using it. GTK 1.2.6 or above is recommended although some programs will work with GTK 1.2.3 onwards. There is now support for GTK 2.0. More info about the wxWindows project (including the Windows, X11/Motif and other ports) can be found at the main wxWindows 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: mkdir gtk cd gtk ../configure --with-gtk make su make install ldconfig In order to use wxGTK with GTK 2.0 you need to use --enable-gtk2 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. Note that so far, support for GTK 2.0 has only been tested on Linux with glibc 2.2. 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... The library produced by the install process will be called libwx_gtk.a (static, only buil if --disable-shared configure switch was used or if shared libraries are not supported at all on your platform which is quite unlikely) and libwx_gtk-2.2.so.0.0.0 (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