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Re: building kicad with wxWidgets on Linux

 

On 9/30/2014 4:57 PM, inkblotter wrote:
> well, I  took the advice offered and added the wxWidgets bin directory
> to the front of my PATH.  I added  the wxWidgets lib directory to the
> front of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
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> cmake . -DwxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE=/home/jfm/wx/bin/wx-config
> 
> cmake . -DwxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE=/home/jfm/wx/bin/wx-config
> CMake Error at CMakeModules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:136
> (message):
>   Could NOT find wxWidgets: Found unsuitable version "2.8.12", but required
>   is at least "3.0.0" (found
>  
> -L/home/jfm/wx/lib;-pthread;;;-lwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0;-lwx_gtk2u_aui-3.0;-lwx_gtk2u_adv-3.0;-lwx_gtk2u_html-3.0;-lwx_gtk2u_core-3.0;-lwx_baseu_net-3.0;-lwx_baseu-3.0;-lwx_baseu_xml-3.0)
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>   CMakeModules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:341
> (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
>   CMakeModules/FindwxWidgets.cmake:901 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
>   CMakeLists.txt:376 (find_package)
> 
> 
> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> 
> This is the error I have been struggling against.  Notice the complaint
> about  2.8 and 3.0.   That is,  the argument to cmake was pointless. 
> But also notice it did find wxWidgets at ~/wx.   It then corrupted the
> output to look like it was meant for Windows, not Linux.  Linux would
> throw up on such drivel.   wx-config --libs gives what I would expect
> 
> /home/jfm/wx/bin/wx-config --libs
> -L/home/jfm/wx/lib -pthread   -lwx_gtk2u_xrc-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_html-3.0
> -lwx_gtk2u_qa-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_adv-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_core-3.0
> -lwx_baseu_xml-3.0 -lwx_baseu_net-3.0 -lwx_baseu-3.0
> 
> That, at least, looks good to me.
> 
> 
> so next I tried
> 
> cmake . -DwxWidgets_ROOT_DIR=/home/jfm/wx
> 
> but that gives exactly the same error as the previous error.
> 
> Finally I tried just this
> 
> cmake  .
> 
> expecting that to fail, and it did but it gave me the same error as all
> the rest of these attempts.
> 
> So I am out of possibilities that Google gave me.
> 
> How does anybody run cmake with wxWidgets not in /usr/local nor in the
> system dirs?

There was a bug in the wx/version.h search paths which I believe is
causing this problem.  I just committed the fix in r5159.  Please see if
this fixes your problem.

Thanks,

Wayne

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> On 09/29/2014 10:37 PM, inkblotter wrote:
>> I have very recently built a new  64-bit linux system, with a new GPU.
>> Of course, I wanted to build kicad on this new system.
>> I have installed cuda and built wxWidgets 3.0.1  and I really look
>> forward to to running the push-and-shove router.
>>
>> But I never make it past  the wxWidgets test in cmake.
>> My system has wxWidget 2.8.12-9 installed and I get the complaint that
>> 3.0 is required.
>> I built wxWigets 3.01 and installed it in $(HOME)/wx and used the flag
>> -DwxWidgets_ROOT_DIR=$(HOME)/wx with cmake.   I thought this would
>> work but it does not and fails on the same complaint about finding 2.8
>> and requiring 3.0 (or better), but it also says that it found my
>> $(HOME)/wx  wxWidgets.
>>
>> That is, it fails on the version complaint first and then finds  the
>> wxWidgets 3.0.1 in $(HOME)/wx, or it seems to fail first and then find
>> newer wxWidgets but cmake fails overall.
>>
>> The system cmake version is 2.8.12.2.
>> g++  4.8.3
>> kernel 3.16.3
>>
>> I am not very  familiar with kicad cmake.  Is there some trick others
>> have found to accomplish building  with wxWidgets not in either
>> /usr/local nor installed in the system paths?
>>
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