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Re: Compiling for Windows under Linux

 

Milan,

I am very concerned about your troubles. Perhaps you can help me (and others) better understand them.

1) What are the names of the files which do feel should not have been deleted from the SVN repository?

2) When were they deleted?

3) Can you pass on the exact communication (i.e. words) from the person who said they were a PITA?

4) Can you tell at which SVN revision the deletion occurred?

Thanks,

Dick


So I did this all, trying for few days and finally make it work and then some f3nix comes, deletes those two cmake files from repository saying it is PITA and all my effort is gone.

Milan

Dick Hollenbeck napsal(a):


Milan Horák wrote:
>
> Hallo Dick,
>
> I understand what you mean. And what you are trying to tell me.
>
> For now, problem was in '--enable-monolitic' directive in compiling
> wxWidgets. When I disabled it, it created all that needed libraries.
> Had to create symlinks to them, cause they're created with _gcc_custom
> suffix.
>
> Compilation succesfull.

Milan,

Congratulations, on your perseverance, and fortitude!

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.

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

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

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?

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.

Last is a question:

Were you able to build wxWidgets for Windows on Linux?

Thanks,

Dick





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