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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Wayne!

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 9/26/2014 6:14 PM, Jon Neal wrote:
> > So maybe this is something that should go in INSTALL.txt, but for Fedora
> > wx3 is available in repositories. The problem is that when installed it
> > names it's wx-config program (which make uses for compilation flags) to
> > wx3.0-config (or similar, not on my dev laptop right now). You have to
> > make a symbolic link from wx3.0-config to wx-config to compile.
>
> You should be able to use
> -DwxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE="/path/to/custom/wx3.0-config" when you
> run CMake to avoid the symlink if you want to keep wxWidgets 2.8 as your
> default.
>
> >
> > Great work moving forward with OSX. Poor compatibility with OSX has been
> > one the loudest complaints I have heard from people.
>
> I'm trying to get this improved so we can get some OSX auto-builders in
> place to provide OSX packages of the latest and greatest versions of
> KiCad for testing purposes.  I don't think it's a good use of time to
> make KiCad easy for ordinary users to build from source.  I would rather
> spend my time making KiCad easy to build for packagers.  I've always
> thought asking users to build software from source was bit insane.  I
> wonder response I would get if I said to my wife "Honey, here is this
> great software you should try, all you have to do is open a shell and
> type configure && make && make install to build and install it."  I
> think it's a testament to our users who go to great lengths to build
> KiCad on OSX and Windows just so they can use recent versions.  I want
> to make their life (and mine) easier.
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     I just committed revision r5149 which fails when wxWidgets is less
> than
> >     version 3.0.0.  I know that the wx3 is not without it's issues but
> it is
> >     becoming too much of a burden to try to keep the code compatible with
> >     wx2 along the known issues.
> >
> >     I've also added an option when building on OSX that disables
> downloading
> >     and building all of the dependencies from source by default.  You
> must
> >     now run CMake with -DUSE_OSX_DEPS_BUILDER=ON if you want to use that
> >     build method.  The are further OSX bundle fixes on the way as well so
> >     please be patient as we transition away from that build philosophy.
> I
> >     am working with Bernhard (thanks Bernhard) on getting this issue
> >     resolved so OSX looks for the dependencies on the system and creates
> OSX
> >     bundles without external scripts.  I have it on good authority that
> >     KiCad will build and run just fine using the installed dependencies.
> >
> >     I am also working on getting stock Boost 1.56 to build KiCad.  It
> does
> >     appear to work on Linux.  I'm still having some issues on Windows so
> >     hopefully that will be resolved before too long and thus eliminate
> the
> >     last dependency we will have to build from source.
> >
> >     Wayne
> >
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