About
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wxWidgets is a free and open source cross-platform C++ framework
for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.

![wxWidgets Logo](https://www.wxwidgets.org/assets/img/header-logo.png)

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 https://docs.wxwidgets.org/


Platforms
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[![AppVeyor](https://img.shields.io/appveyor/build/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/master?label=AppVeyor&logo=appveyor)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/wxWidgets/wxwidgets)
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[![MSW (MSVC)](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/actions/workflows/ci_msw.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/actions/workflows/ci_msw.yml)
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[![Mac](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/actions/workflows/ci_mac.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/actions/workflows/ci_mac.yml)
[![OSS-Fuzz](https://oss-fuzz-build-logs.storage.googleapis.com/badges/wxwidgets.svg)](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/list?sort=-opened&can=1&q=proj:wxwidgets)

This version of wxWidgets supports the following primary platforms:

- Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 (32/64 bit Intel and ARM64).
- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer or 3.x).
- macOS (10.10 or newer) using Cocoa under both amd64 and ARM platforms.

All C++11 compilers are supported including but not limited to:

- Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 or later (up to 2026).
- g++ 4.8 or later (up to 15), including MinGW/MinGW-64/TDM under Windows.
- Clang (up to 19/Xcode 16).

Please use [3.2 branch](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/3.2) if
you must use wxWidgets with a C++98 compiler or support Windows XP.


Licence
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[wxWidgets licence](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/master/docs/licence.txt)
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.


Building
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For building the library, please see platform-specific documentation under
`docs/<port>` directory, e.g. here are the instructions for
[wxGTK](docs/gtk/install.md), [wxMSW](docs/msw/install.md) and
[wxOSX](docs/osx/install.md).

If you're building the sources checked out from Git, and not from a released
version, please see these additional [Git-specific notes](README-GIT.md).


Contributing
------------

Contributions to wxWidgets are always welcome, please don't hesitate to submit
your patches or pull requests! If you are not sure how to do this, please check
[our guidelines](https://wxwidgets.org/develop/how-to-submit-patches/)
explaining it.

Not all contributions have to be code, you can also help by improving
documentation or translations, for which we have a [separate
page](https://wxwidgets.org/about/translations/#how-to-help) with more details.

Thank you in advance for your help in making wxWidgets better!


Further information
-------------------

If you are looking for community support, you can get it from

- [Mailing Lists](https://www.wxwidgets.org/support/mailing-lists/)
- [Discussion Forums](https://forums.wxwidgets.org/)
- [#wxwidgets IRC channel](https://www.wxwidgets.org/support/irc/)
- [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wxwidgets)
  (tag your questions with `wxwidgets`)
- And you can report bugs at [GitHub](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/issues/new/choose)

[Commercial support](https://www.wxwidgets.org/support/commercial/) is also
available.

Finally, keep in mind that wxWidgets is an open source project collaboratively
developed by its users and your contributions to it are always welcome. Please
check [our guidelines](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) if you'd like to do it.


Have fun!

The wxWidgets Team.
