wxWindows is a cross platform, UI widget toolkit similar to Qt and the Gnome toolkit. It supports the following: Various Unices Microsoft Windows Embedded platforms It has been in development for the last ten years, and it is extremely stable. The wxWindows development team is lead by Julian Smart, from the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh. wxWindows can be downloaded from http://www.wxwindows.org. cd wxwindows bunzip2 wxGTK-2.2.9.tar.bz2 tar xvf wxGTK-2.2.9.tar cd wxGTK-2.2.9 ./configure make make install cp lib/wx/include/gtk-2.2/wx/setup.h /usr/local/include/wx/ If you have installed wxWindows on an architecture / operating system combination which supports dynamic libraries, then you will need to run the ldconfig command or equivalent.