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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again Martijn,

Sorry I didn't see you had made use of check_find_package_result().

This introduces a more fundamental problem, now sys expat is required.
If I hide expat from my system and configure kicad with that check in,
the output is:

-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/dev-env/apps/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/dev-env/apps/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/dev-env/apps/MinGW/bin/g++.exe
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/dev-env/apps/MinGW/bin/g++.exe -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for installed OpenGL -- found
-- Check for installed Expat -- not found
CMake Error at CMakeModules/CheckFindPackageResult.cmake:6 (message):
  Expat was not found - it is required to build Kicad
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:134 (check_find_package_result)


CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but
they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the
CMake files:
EXPAT_INCLUDE_DIR (ADVANCED)
   used as include directory in directory C:/dev-env/src/kicad/kicad

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

See my earlier explanation about how QUIET and
check_find_package_result() work together. Just a bit of rejigging
required and it'll work how you want it to.

Best Regards,

Brian.

On 15 October 2010 00:17, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Martijn,
>
> I don't think this patch is correct. You have made the build alter if
> expat is found as a system library. In this case you add the system
> expat library to the linker. The trouble is, although I have a system
> expat, I compile wxWidgets to use its own implementation as I'm sure
> this is the more thoroughly controlled code path (less susceptible to
> bugs).
>
> Instead, you could check for just the component expat for wxWidgets,
> and only if you cannot locate expat shoudl you then do the sys expat
> check and conditionally add the expat library link option, and then
> continue on to check for the full list of other wxWidgets components.
>
> QUIET does not mean not required - it just means do not fail at this
> point, and do not print messages to the screeen. This is important,
> although most checks in the KiCad cmake files are straight forward. A
> patch I put together the other day would require this operation. It
> was along the lines of:
>
> ---
>
> find_package(wxWidgets COMPONENTS gl adv html core net base xml QUIET)
>
> # On a windows console (i.e. not MSYS), a monolithic build cannot
> detect other components,
> # only gl and mono can be detected
> if(WIN32)
>    if(NOT wxWidgets_FOUND)
>        find_package(wxWidgets COMPONENTS mono gl QUIET)
>    endif(NOT wxWidgets_FOUND)
> endif(WIN32)
>
> ---
>
> If REQUIRED was used, it would have failed before doing the
> exceptional check for the win32 monolithic build. KiCad uses this
> method, and then fails through the check_find_package_result() method
> if needed after all possible checks have been run. This is a neat way
> of handling multiple checks. You can find the
> check_find_package_result() cmake macro under the CMakeModules
> directory of the kicad source.
>
> This is only my opinion of course, others might expand on this or
> approve it and tell me to shut up! ;-)
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brian.
>
> On 14 October 2010 12:10, Martijn Kuipers <martijn.kuipers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Dear Devs,
>>
>> Kicad has a dependency on expat. It can either be provided by expat or by wxWidgets. However, cmake does not look for expat and as such if not found, a linker error occurs (which is bad, since it happens near the end of the building process).
>>
>> This patch adds a non-required dependency on expat (since it can be provided by wxWidgets) and if it finds the library it adds it to the linker flag (-lexpat). If the library is not found, it is added as a component to wxWidgets library.
>>
>> This patch allows me to build kicad, with the system provided library for expat. I have tested this on OSX, but I think it is needed on all platforms.
>>
>>
>> Note, all dependencies in the CMake files are of type QUIET, which means not required.  It also means, the compiler will try to build kicad, whether it finds the libraries or not. From a quick look it might make sense to make wxWidgets REQUIRED and to make expat REQUIRED if it is not provided by wxWidgets. This is not added to this patch, because I would like to hear your opinion on this first.
>>
>> /Martijn
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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