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<h1>Installation and Release Notes</h1>
<p>Unless you installed a binary version of wxWidgets (e.g. under Linux
using your distro's package manager), you will probably have to
<strong>compile</strong> the wxWidgets library before you can start use
it.</p>
<p>Please read the platform-specific <tt>readme.txt</tt> and
<tt>install.txt</tt> for how to do this:</p>
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<li>Readme:
<a href="readme.txt"><b>General ReadMe</b></a>,
<a href="msw/readme.txt">wxMSW</a> (<a href="msw/winxp.txt">wxMSW for WinXP</a>),
<a href="gtk/readme.txt">wxGTK</a>,
<a href="osx/readme.txt">wxOSX</a>,
<a href="motif/readme.txt">wxMotif</a>,
<a href="qt/readme.txt">wxQt</a>
<a href="x11/readme.txt">wxX11</a>,
<a href="univ/readme.txt">Univ</a>,
<a href="ios/readme.txt">wxiOS</a>
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<li>Installation:
<a href="msw/install.md">wxMSW</a>,
<a href="gtk/install.md">wxGTK</a>,
<a href="motif/install.md">wxMotif</a>,
<a href="x11/install.md">wxX11</a>,
<a href="osx/install.md">wxOSX</a>,
<a href="qt/install.md">wxQt</a>,
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<li><a href="changes.txt"><b>General change log</b></a></li>
<li>Licence:
<a href="preamble.txt">Preamble</a>,
<a href="licence.txt">Licence</a>,
<a href="licendoc.txt">Documentation Licence</a>,
<a href="lgpl.txt">L-GPL</a>,
<a href="gpl.txt">GPL</a>
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<li><a href="faqcmn.htm">Questions common to all platforms</a></font></li>
<li><a href="faqmsw.htm">wxWidgets for Windows</a></font></li>
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<li><a href="faqmot.htm">wxWidgets for Motif</a></font></li>
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<h1>Documentation</h1>
<p>The wxWidgets manual is available in various formats; the availability of
the following formats depends on what you've downloaded from the
<a href="https://www.wxwidgets.org">wxWidgets website</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="doxygen/out/html/index.html">HTML</a></li>
<li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.chm">MS HTML Help (CHM)</a></li>
<li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.htb">wxHTML Help (HTB)</a></li>
<li><a href="doxygen/out/rtf/refman.rtf">Rich Text Format (RTF)</a></li>
<li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.pdf">Portable Document Format (PDF)</a></li>
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<p>To use the manual in the <b>wxHTML Help</b> format (extension
<tt>htb</tt>), you can use the <b>HelpView</b> application, compiling it
from the <tt>utils/helpview</tt> folder in the wxWidgets
distribution.</p>
<p>Also note that beyond the wxWidgets manual there are various other
<strong>resources</strong> which can help to learn wxWidgets
programming:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.wxwidgets.org">The wxWidgets website</a>: Contains
FAQs, tutorials, info about the mailing lists, and in general
everything related to the wxWidgets world is linked here.</li>
<li><a href="https://forums.wxwidgets.org/">The wxWidgets forum</a>:
Provides a discussion board about various wxWidgets topics (contains
also <em>localized</em> forums).</li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/">The wxWiki</a>: A user-editable
website with lots of tutorials, links to external tools, resources,
etc.</li>
</ul>
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<h1>Contributor Notes</h1>
<p>Contributor notes contain information useful only to wxWidgets developers
for the maintenance of the project:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="contributing/">Index of Contributor Notes</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Todo List for wxWidgets:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Development:_Todo_List">wxWiki Todo List</a></li>
<li><a href="doxygen/out/html/todo.html">Documentation Todo List</a></li>
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<h1>Demos</h1>
<p>The following are fully-fledged applications which demonstrate some
features of wxWidgets (for a list of the 70+ samples please look at the
manual):</p>
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<li><a href="../demos/bombs">bombs</a>: minesweeper-like game.</li>
<li><a href="../demos/forty">forty</a>: a great little card game by Chris Breeze.</li>
<li><a href="../demos/fractal">fractal</a>: fractal mountains by Andrew Davison.</li>
<li><a href="../demos/life">life</a>: the game of Life by J. H. Conway,
implemented in wxWidgets by Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia.</li>
<li><a href="../demos/poem">poem</a>: a little poetry display program.</li>
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