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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Have you tried doing the same except making the wx-config in $PATH be a
symlink to your custom wx and remove the -DwxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE?

Because it works fine on arch with both 2.8 and 3.0, where the default
wx-config is for 3.0. By fine I mean that it uses the 3.0 one and builds
fine etc.
Den 10/02/2015 08.11 skrev "inkblotter" <inkbottle@xxxxxxxxx>:

>  I'll try again to find someone who understands  the ins and out of cmake
> enough to steer me to some solution that make sense.  Below you will see
> what happens on Fedora always with kicad cmake and wxWidgets.
>
> Notice that I am telling  cmake exactly how to run  my wx-config script.
> In fact, I have that path on my path.
>
>  wx-config --libs
> -L/home/jfm/wx-302/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
>
>  I suppose it is too hard for cmake to simply use the results of
> wx-config --libs, not convert it to some semi-colon  list that won't work
> on  Linux in any case.   But cmake doesn't do that, instead it insists on
> using the system wxWidgets version, even if it doesn't exist.  I did indeed
> remove the system wxWidgets and all the programs that use it.   Did that
> change anything.   Yes, it changed the error message because  blank was
> compared to wxWidgets 3.0.0 and found wanting.
>
>
>  So, 1) having wx-config on my PATH has no effect on the result; it fails.
>
> 2) removing the system wxWidgets (and all the programs that depend on it)
> has no effect on the result; it fails the same way.
> 3)  The the cmake log file doesn't  contain any  information about
> wxWidgets at all.
>
> I have hacked the cmake files to make this work on Fedora 19, and
> Fedora20, and succeeded but it is nothing I would document for any others
> using Fedora.
>
> The problem is that stuff it finds is more or less correct but it isn't in
> the right cmake variable for it to use it.
>
> That is, the cmake code that executes simply does the wrong thing on
> Linux, at least Fedora Linux.
>
> Now, I can hack this into working again, but that would be pushing this
> issue under the carpet again.  What needs to happen is that when  the cmake
> flag -DwxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE is encountered  it uses the result of
> wx-config --libs directly and skips the system  check  completely, unless
> of course these libs really are the wrong version of wxWidgets , which in
> my case is not the case.
>
> Here is  example of the  error in all its glory.
>
> cmake -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=ON -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
> -DUSE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON -DBUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
> -DPYTHON_DEST=/home/jfm/sitepkgs -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/jfm/kicad
> -DwxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE=/home/jfm/wx-302/bin/wx-config
>
> CMake Error at CMakeModules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:131
> (include):
>
> include could not find load file:
>
>
>  Call Stack (most recent call first):
>
> CMakeModules/FindwxWidgets.cmake:928 (include)
>
> CMakeLists.txt:444 (find_package)
>
>
>
>  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-302/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;-lwx_gtk2u_stc-3.0)
>
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>
> CMakeModules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:341
> (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
>
> CMakeModules/FindwxWidgets.cmake:930 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
>
> CMakeLists.txt:444 (find_package)
>
>
>
>  -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
>
>
>  One more question for those who know.  I seem to recall that when
> building wxWidgets it is important to use additional flags  so that gal
> will be happy.   I don't remember the libs involved but I seem to recall
> that there were two libs needed.
>
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