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Re: Call for update of avhttp because of boost 1.57

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I tried doing this on one of my blind alleys - I was able to compile
Boost 1.57 ok,
but then needed to do it again because the libs need to be static.

  ./b2 link=static

Then there was the problem of telling kicad where the newly compiled
boost was..

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I think a simpler process is to just start from scratch (bzr branch
lp:kicad)

and before the 'make' step go into download_boost.cmake and make two changes
- the version from 54 to 57 and on the next line change the MD5 hash result
(see my notes below)

From that point, boost will download nicely where kicad expects it to be.

The problem as you have pointed out is the patch step.

The first patch works (!) minkowski.hpp
but then the 2nd patch cstdint.hpp fails

If there was a way to make a failed patch not kill the build, it would
be possible to cleanly step over this bump and possibly continue with a
successful build.

Bob G

On 11/12/2014 07:51 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:

You should build and install Boost 1.57 outside of kicad by following
the boost build instructions of OSX and then configure the kicad build
with KICAD_SKIP_BOOST=ON.  You may also have to set BOOST_ROOT if cmake
cannot find the installed boost 1.57.  What you are attempting to do
will most likely fail because the kicad build configuration applies a
bunch of patches to boost 1.54 that will likely not apply cleanly to
1.57.  Sorry if I was not clear about the process.

On 11/11/2014 7:58 PM, Bob Gustafson wrote:

To build and test with boost_1_57, my process may be different..

I went into ~/KiCad/kicad/CMakeModules
and changed in the file download_boost.cmake
the first 54 to 57 - all of the other 54s are in comments

Then went to ~/KiCad/kicad/kicad and did 'make 2&1 | tee make.out'
The boost 1.57 was downloaded and then failed on the hash check verify
step.

I then went deeper into download_boost.cmake and changed the check line to:
set( BOOST_MD5 1be49befbdd9a5ce9def2983ba3e7b76 ) ..

Then doing the make step over again, it was smart enough not to download
boost again
and it was successful on the verify step, but then it started to patch
and failed.

I have gone down several blind holes on this, but the build fails every
time.
(Need to go and peel the garlics now)

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In directory ~/KiCad/kicad/kicad, in file CMakeCache.txt

Change line 'KICAD_SKIP_BOOST:BOOL=OFF'
to KICAD_SKIP_BOOST:BOOL=ON

Although it seems that on the first build of Boost,
KICAD_SKIP_BOOST:BOOL should equal OFF (do not skip)
After Boost has been (successfully) built, then the
KICAD_SKIP_BOOST:BOOL can be set to ON (skip..)
I may be wrong about this.

Later

Bob G

On 11/11/2014 12:14 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:

Thanks Bob.  If the 1.57 testing doesn't cause any issues, I'll commit
the latest avhttp changes.

Wayne

On 11/11/2014 12:19 PM, Bob Gustafson wrote:

Going through your list of instructions for the new avhttp - good
instructions by the way.

On OSX, boost 1.54 (was on computer) and KICAD_SKIP_BOOST=OFF (this was
the setting)

Build went fast (no rebuild of boost..) Only a few warnings.

kicad executes. Clicking on pcbnew - also looks good. At the top of the
pcbnew window, it says: 2014-10-31 BZR 5247.

Hope this is what was expected

I will build the new boost 1.57 and test that.

Bob G

On 11/11/2014 08:17 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:

Thank you everyone for testing this.  I verified that it works with
Boost 1.57 using KICAD_SKIP_BOOST=ON and our modified Boost 1.54 with
KICAD_SKIP_BOOST=OFF on windows.  The only unknown at this point is
OSX.
    Would someone please test both Boost build options (stock 1.57
and our
custom 1.54) on OSX?  We have OSX builds in pretty good shape so I
don't
want to break anything.  The process is fairly straight forward.

1) Down load the avhttp source zip file from
https://github.com/avplayer/avhttp/archive/master.zip
2) Copy the zip file to pcbnew/github/avhttp-master.zip.
3) Delete existing avhttp source folder .downloads-by-cmake/avhttp
4) Configure and build kicad against boost 1.57 using
KICAD_SKIP_BOOST=ON.
5) Configure and build kicad against our custom boost 1.54 using
KICAD_SKIP_BOOST=OFF.

Once I have confirmation that this doesn't break the OSX build, I will
commit the latest avhttp source zip file.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 11/9/2014 10:45 PM, Blair Bonnett wrote:

On 10 November 2014 09:41, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

Yes, it also builds with kicad's boost and it fetches the footprints
form github without problems. So I would say it is safe to update.


I ran into the same compile error last night after a system update.
I've
just compiled with the latest avhttp with both Boost 1.57, and the
patched 1.54 bundled with KiCad. I encountered no problems using
either
-- cvpcb seems happy in both cases.


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