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[Martijn Kuipers <martijn.kuipers@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 17, 2010, at 22:02 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:

> On 10/16/2010 2:52 PM, Martijn Kuipers wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> There are two ways that wxWidgets depends on expat:
>>> 
>>> 1) wxXml class depends on expat.
>>> 
>>> 2) xrc depends on wxXml which depends on expat
>>> 
>>> 
>>> My current theory is this:
>>> 
>>> wxWidgets folks have probably gotten their build system fairly robust
>>> for users of 2), i.e. xrc.
>>> 
>>> For those that are only using 1), like Kicad, then they still have a
>>> hole or two.  When we say "they",
>>> 
>>> Perhaps a test should be done to depend on the xrc support, even though
>>> we don't use it.  That might be another way to consider plugging this hole.
>>> 
>>> The provider of wxWidgets is definitely a factor also to consider also,
>>> where does it come from?  If it comes from the distro repo, then there
>>> is a package maintainer in this picture also, else not.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dick
>> 
>> Thanks Dick and Wayne for your clear explanation.  Though even if it is a wx problem, should we not plug the hole while we await a fix from upstream?
> 
> Martin,
> 
> On my home machine with wxWidgets build as individual static libraries
> using expat included with wxWidgets, wx-config --libs xml yields the
> following output:
> 
> -L/mingw/lib  -mthreads  /mingw/lib/libwx_baseud_xml-2.8.a
> /mingw/lib/libwx_baseud-2.8.a -lwxregexud-2.8 -lwxexpatd-2.8 -lz
> -lrpcrt4 -luuid -lodbc32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lwinspool -lwinmm -lshell32
> -lcomctl32 -lcomdlg32 -lctl3d32 -ladvapi32 -lwsock32 -lgdi32
> 
> It appears that in this case, wx-config is returning the correct expat
> library to link against.  I'll check my machine a work tomorrow.  I'm
> pretty sure I build wxWidgets using the expat library I build separately
> and see if it includes -lexpat instead of -lwxexpatd-2.8.
> 
> Wayne

Thanks Wayne,

I am on OSX if that makes a difference. Marco has already created a bug-report at wx, so let's see what they do.

/Martijn

> 
>> 
>> /Martijn
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