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[Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your effort Brian,

    Not sure if it's possible to remove the Cairo dependency in wxPython
may be it's worth trying.

   In the other hand, I had some usage planned for Cairo (like SVG
rendering, which could be *cool* when we wanted to build web services based
in pcbnew libraries or similar, for example).

  What do you think? :)

2012/10/26 Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>

> On 25 October 2012 11:50, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On 25 October 2012 11:40, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> You're right Brian, that's the reason why you couldn't see the scripting
> >> console button at the toolbar
> >> and pcbnew didn't incorporate the scripting "ui" things inside, the
> lack of
> >> wxPython (that as far as I know
> >> just substitute wx itself).
> >>
> >> I think there is another compile switch you must enable yet for
> scripting:
> >>
> >> KICAD_SCRIPTING  <-- enables scripting inside pcbnew
> >>
> >> KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES <--- builds a pcbnew.dll for standalone python
> >>
> >> KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON  <---- builds all the UI stuff dependent on
> >> wxPython inside pcbnew
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot for taking care of the windows build!! :)
> >>
> >
> > Hi Miguel,
> >
> > I cheated by shifting the wxpython headers in to my wxWidgets source
> > directory quickly and after building, PCBNEW failed to start because
> > it couldn't init wxPython. So tonight I'll build wxPython from source
> > and point KiCad towards it. That should get me a sane build on Windows
> > and we can see how it goes from there.
> >
> > Luckily wxPython have a 2.9.4 source tree, which is what we need on
> Windows.
> >
> > Thanks for adding scripting support to KiCad! :-D
> >
> > Best Regards, Brian.
>
> I didn't have much time last night, but I pointed KiCad to wxPython
> instead of wxWidgets for building. It got so far and choked because
> wxPython appears to have a dependency on Cairo. It required too much
> time to investigate last night, but I'll try and look at it again
> tonight to see if that is a requirement, or if it is optional.
>
> If Cario's optional it'd be good to get rid of it, otherwise it'll be
> another dependency to add to the list.
>
> Best Regards, Brian.
>



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