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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I committed the fix for this in r6444.  I'm not thrilled with this fix
but converting wxStrings to c strings has always been problematic.
Please let me know if you are still having build issues.

On 1/11/2016 9:57 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Whoops!  That was gcc 4.7.3 on windows (msys1/mingw32).
> 
> On 1/11/2016 9:26 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> You're not the only one.  It's choking form me with gcc 5.3 on windows.
>>  I'm working on it now.
>>
>> On 1/11/2016 9:19 AM, Simon Wells wrote:
>>> I am currently trying to build and getting
>>>
>>> [ 30%] Building CXX object
>>> common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/kicad_curl/kicad_curl.cpp.o
>>>
>>> kicad/common/kicad_curl/kicad_curl.cpp:107:46: error: cannot
>>>
>>>       pass non-POD object of type 'wxString' to variadic function;
>>> expected type from format string was
>>>
>>>       'char *' [-Wnon-pod-varargs]
>>>
>>>                                              canonicalName );
>>>
>>>                                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> kicad/common/kicad_curl/kicad_curl.cpp:123:29: error: cannot
>>>
>>>       cast from type 'wxString' to pointer type 'const char *'
>>>
>>>                             static_cast<const char*>( canonicalName ),
>>>
>>>                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> 2 errors generated.
>>>
>>> this is with clang on osx, and appears to be related to commit 6440
>>>
>>> I have noticed that jenkins seems to be building fine so it may only be
>>> a clang issue, but why is it being casted in the latter case and not the
>>> former case anyways
>>>
>>>
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