wxWidgets (formerly known as wxWindows) is a class library for C++ providing GUI components and other facilities on several popular platforms (and some unpopular ones as well). For more information see http://wxwidgets.org . This package provides a debug version of the wxGTK library. It is compiled both with -g for normal debugger tracing and with the __WXDEBUG__ flag which provides many internal checks by wxWidgets itself that are not performed on apps compiled with the 'release version' libs in the -dev package.