This allows running with a GTK+ library that was built with different backends than the one wxWidgets was built with. Since GTK3 provides no way to determine the backends available at run-time, avoid referencing symbols in the backends by checking the type name of the GdkDisplay, on the assumption that they are unlikely to ever be changed. The X11 backend is still required at run-time if it was available at build-time, although this dependency could also be removed.
About
wxWidgets is a free and open source cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.
wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for all the major desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting the differences in the non-GUI aspects between them. It is free for the use in both open source and commercial applications, comes with the full, easy to read and modify, source and extensive documentation and a collection of more than a hundred examples. You can learn more about wxWidgets at https://www.wxwidgets.org/ and read its documentation online at http://docs.wxwidgets.org/
Platforms
wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms:
- Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 (32/64 bits).
- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer or 3.x).
- OS X (10.7 or newer) using Cocoa (32/64 bits).
Most popular C++ compilers are supported including but not limited to:
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 or later (up to 2015).
- g++ 3.4 or later, including MinGW/MinGW-64/TDM under Windows.
- Clang under OS X and Linux.
- Intel icc compiler.
- Oracle (ex-Sun) aCC.
Licence
wxWidgets licence is a modified version of LGPL explicitly allowing not distributing the sources of an application using the library even in the case of static linking.
Further information
If you are looking for support, you can get it from
- Mailing Lists
- Discussion Forums
- #wxwidgets IRC channel
- Stack Overflow
(tag your questions with
wxwidgets
) - Please report bugs at http://trac.wxwidgets.org/newticket
We would also gladly welcome your contributions.
Have fun!
The wxWidgets Team.