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[jean-pierre charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 14/02/2012 11:15, arius a écrit :
> Hello everyone,
>
> Following exactly the description in 'COMPILING.txt' I'm not able to build KiCAD by using MSYS as build environment under Windows
> 7 (64 bit).
> The problem is that wx header files cannot be found although the appropriate directories are within the search path of the gcc.
> I tried many different settings but the only solution I have found so far was to replace within the generated makefiles all
> occurrences of /usr/local (or whatever I have tried beside this) with the absolute Windows path to the wx installation directory.
>
> Could someone please be so kind and provide some information about his/her MSYS build environment?
>
> 1) Where are the wxWidgets (MSW) sources located?
> wxWidgets_SOURCE_DIR=
>
> 2) What has been passed as '--prefix=' to configure?
> cmd: grep -i 'with options' config.status # could be executed in the wx build directory
>
> 3) Where have the wxWidgets binaries been installed?
> wxWidgets_ROOT_DIR=
>
> 4) Which mount points are existing?
> cmd: mount
>
> 5) What are the search directories of gcc?
> cmd: gcc -v -c foo.c 2>&1 | sed ':1;s,/[^/.][^/]*/\.\./,/,;t 1'
>
> 6) What does wx-config provide as location for headers and binaries?
> cmd: wx-config --libs
> cmd: wx-config --cppflags
>
> 7) Where is the wx library expected by the KiCAD build?
> cmd: grep -i root_dir *.txt # could be executed in KiCAD's build directory
>
> The reason why I would like to compile KiCAD is that I would like to continue my work on the translation resp. updating it.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> /arius/

wxWidgets can be located anywhere.
Just wx-config must be found by cmake and must be is a search path.

here is a command file I am using to generate cmake files to compile Kicad under windows:

WXMSW=/d/wxWidgets-2.9.3/Release
#WXMSW=/d/wxWidgets_svn/Release
echo wxWidgets path = $WXMSW
export PATH=$PATH:$WXMSW
VERSION=-DKICAD_TESTING_VERSION=0N
INST_DIR=-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=f:/kicad
cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release $VERSION $INST_DIR -DwxWidgets_ROOT_DIR=$WXMSW ../../

The line
export PATH=$PATH:$WXMSW
puts (temporarily) the wxWidgets directory in mingw/msys search path.
( I am using 2 wxWidgets versions, one compiled in /d/wxWidgets-2.9.3/Release, and the other one in /d/wxWidgets_svn/Release )

WXMSW defines the directory where wxWidgets was compiled (to find wx-config).

just run ./<this_command_file> to create makefiles, and then run make.

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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS