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[Milan Horák <konference@...>]

Hallo,

see below

Dick Hollenbeck napsal(a):
> Milan,
>
> Congratulations, on your perseverance, and fortitude!

[blush]

> I expect that this capability will be used by some of the other
> developers to generate Windows binaries from Linux. While it is still
> fresh in your mind, I would like to gather all the data that we can, and
> standardize and document the solution.
>
> Here is a summary of what you've told us. You:
>
> 1) Had to use CMake 2.6.4, not 2.6.2. You did not mention any edits to
> the CMake supplied FindwxWidgets.cmake for 2.6.4.

No edit done, just used the file from CMake 2.6.4

> 2) Had to build wxWidgets for windows without the '--enable-monolitic'
> flag, so that the names of the generated libraries matched those looked
> for in the stock FindwxWidgets.cmake

Libraries generated are named i.e. libwx28u_net_gcc_custom.dll but macro 
looks for libwx28_net.dll. Had to make a symlinks to them.

Macro also looks in directories, which are not created by compiling and 
installing wxWidgets. Had to make symlinks too.

Will report exact changes tomorrow (computer at work).

> 3) Had add a file UsewxWidgets.cmake to <kicad>/CMakeModules
> directory. WE NEED THIS FILE COMMITTED?

Official file from CMake 2.6.4 - located in cmake/Modules directory too.

> 4) Had to change windres.exe to i586-mingw32msvc-windres in
> MinGWResourceCompiler.cmake according to Mateusz. I would like to
> find a way to isolate this change to your toolkit file. Can a proper
> variable be injected in your toolkit file so that the standard winres
> variable name can be used in MinGWResourceCompiler.cmake?

I think we can manage it by some host based check in cmake file. Will 
check it.

> 5) We need a copy of your toolkit file committed into the tree, although
> developers should know that this one is considered very "host machine
> dependent" and will need to be edited before use.

Will do. Will make it easily configurable.

> Last is a question:
>
> Were you able to build wxWidgets for Windows on Linux?

Yes, wxWidgets I'm talking about are compiled on Linux for Windows }By 
Mateusz's guide).

Milan

> Thanks,
>
> Dick