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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/15/2013 09:59 AM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I have been having trouble building pcbnew with -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=ON and
> -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON. I tried a few days ago with and without and it's definitely
> one of those flags, not surprising considering the error:
> 
> |[ 61%] Building CXX object pcbnew/CMakeFiles/_pcbnew.dir/__/scripting/wx_python_helpers.cpp.o
> /home/kaspar/kicad/kicad.bzr2/scripting/wx_python_helpers.cpp: In function ‘wxString* newWxStringFromPy(PyObject*)’:
>  /home/kaspar/kicad/kicad.bzr2/scripting/wx_python_helpers.cpp:77:30: error: ‘PyString_Check’ was not declared in this scope
>      if( !PyString_Check( src ) && !PyUnicode_Check( src ) )
>                               ^
>  /home/kaspar/kicad/kicad.bzr2/scripting/wx_python_helpers.cpp:86:29: error: ‘PyString_Check’ was not declared in this scope
>      if( PyString_Check( obj ) )
>                              ^
> /home/kaspar/kicad/kicad.bzr2/scripting/wx_python_helpers.cpp:101:67: error: cannot convert ‘PyUnicodeObject*’ to ‘PyObject* {aka _object*}’ for argument ‘1’ to ‘Py_ssize_t PyUnicodeUCS4_AsWideChar(PyObject*, wchar_t*, Py_ssize_t)’
>                                 wxStringBuffer( *result, len ), len );
>                                                                    ^
> make[2]: *** [pcbnew/CMakeFiles/_pcbnew.dir/__/scripting/wx_python_helpers.cpp.o] Error 1
>  make[1]: *** [pcbnew/CMakeFiles/_pcbnew.dir/all] Error 2|
> 
> I just tried with -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON as well and that gives the same error.
> 
> I don't have time right now to do a proper regression test but it definitely occurs with
> revisions 4242 onwards.
> 
> Anyone know anything about this?


Scripting builds often require that you do a

$ make clean

before your

$ make


There are some disconnects in the dependency tree, mostly because of incomplete cmake
macros/functions for swig.


$ make clean

is the work around.