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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Marius Kintel wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2008, at 6:53 PM, emmedics4 wrote:
>
> > I've some time to spend on the OSX port of Kicad, someone has a todo 
> > list of the work to do ?
> The most serious issue, which makes KiCAD not work on Mac, is the 
> previously discussed issues related to invalid use of graphics 
> contexts with wxWidgets-2.8. Earlier, it was possible to revert to 
> wxWidgets-2.6, but this old version is not maintained any longer, and 
> fails to build on Leopard.
> One alternative which popped up, was to try building the Mac port 
> using X11. In not particularly in favor of this option, but it _might_ 
> prove to be an easier solution to have a build which technically runs 
> on Mac.
> To fix this properly (i.e. using the native wxWidgets-2.8), I think 
> KiCAD's drawing code should be reorganized to only redraw when 
> triggered from a paint event. My peeks into this so far indicates that 
> this is mainly an issue with statusbar rendering, as well as redraws 
> while reading a design file. The problems are most visible in the 
> pcbnew app.
Both of these should be easy to fix. I asked in my other response for 
a commented patch to the msgpanel code. Gutting the pcbnew load of the 
drawing calls was on my list of things to do anyway.

Dick


> Another missing piece is making the CMake build system work for the 
> Mac port.
I am surprised at this, really. Has Apple made it hard to compile and 
link a program? Or is CMake not available on the Mac?
Dick