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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/4/2016 7:34 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 2016-09-02 23:05 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> 2016-09-02 23:00 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On 9/2/2016 4:28 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>>> 2016-09-02 21:25 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>> Cirilo,
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone still needs to address building oce on msys2.  I just spent way
>>>>> too much time building oce from source on msys2.  The oce folks decided
>>>>> to ignore CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX and use there own install path stuff
>>>>> which is is not compatible with the msys2 file system hierarchy.  The
>>>>> bad thing is you cannot manually copy the dlls and link stub files to
>>>>> the appropriate paths because the generated cmake oce find stuff will
>>>>> point to the incorrect paths.  To create PKGBUILD for msys2 will require
>>>>> JP's patch to fix long command lengths along with a patch to fix oce's
>>>>> install path issues.  If someone else has time to work on this please do.
>>>>
>>>> As I mentioned earlier, I am trying to address the OCE build for
>>>> msys2, but there are some problems, which I don't know if they are
>>>> fixed in latest cmake.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/pull/1618
>>>>
>>>> I am just not sure what the best thing to do is for those paths for
>>>> _IMPORT_PREFIX in OCE-libraries.cmake and
>>>> OCE_INCLUDE_DIRS from OCEConfig.cmake.
>>>>
>>>> If they are set to windows paths, then it works. But that is not how
>>>> they are generated, and it should probably be changed as a post
>>>> install step if they need to be hacked like this.
>>>
>>> Here is the offending code in the main oce CMakeList file:
>>>
>>
>> No. The install is just fine, it is just when you try to build against
>> OCE the cmake files have some bad paths. I override the install
>> locations in the PKGBUILD. I also don't know why OCE does it like that
>> on windows, but as long as I can override it by configuring it via
>> cmake arguments I am fine with that so far. No patching needed.
> 
> My pull request for oce have been merged. I guess it is only a matter
> of time before there will be prebuild packages for it.

Thanks for taking care of the Nick.  It will make life easier for mys2 devs.

> 
>>> # Libraries are installed by default in /usr/local/lib on UNIX
>>> # based platforms and c:/OCE-VERSION/Win[32|64]/lib on windows based
>>> # platforms
>>>
>>> if(WIN32)
>>>         set(_PSUFFIX "Win${BIT}/")
>>> else(WIN32)
>>>         set(_PSUFFIX "")
>>> endif(WIN32)
>>>
>>> This installs the dlls in ${OCE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin/win##/ and the link
>>> stubs in ${OCE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/win##/ where ## is either 32 or 64
>>> depending on the build.  This probably should be:
>>>
>>> if(WIN32 AND NOT MINGW)
>>>         set(_PSUFFIX "Win${BIT}/")
>>> else(WIN32)
>>>         set(_PSUFFIX "")
>>> endif(WIN32)
>>>
>>> This would make _PSUFFIX="" which would should install everything in the
>>> correct path and generate the correct cmake find files for the package.
>>> Why the oce folks don't just use the default cmake install paths is
>>> beyond me.  Maybe this is still here for issues with older versions of
>>> cmake.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Wayne
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9/2/2016 6:22 AM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
>>>>>> Thanks for the merge and to everyone who's helped out with the
>>>>>> cross-platform issues.
>>>>>> I've got a new feature branch "kicad-step" with the kicad2step
>>>>>> standalone tool if anyone
>>>>>> feels like playing with it and providing some feedback.  This is the
>>>>>> tool which I plan to
>>>>>> make available as an item in the "Export" menu to give KiCad it's own
>>>>>> built-in MCAD
>>>>>> export.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~cirilo-bernardo/kicad/+git/kicad-oce
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The long-term plan is to make this tool a genuine plugin, but the API
>>>>>> required for that
>>>>>> is turning out to be quite a big job and is currently on hold due to my
>>>>>> limited free time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This stand-alone tool makes use of mRoszko's SEXPR parser which is a
>>>>>> great tool
>>>>>> for making third-party tools that can read KiCad PCB files.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Cirilo
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> <mailto:swel024@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     just fyi a couple of tips on OSX
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Make sure that brew is installing oce-0.17.2 this was only commited to
>>>>>>     brew mid august so if its only installing 0.17 (which is broke) then
>>>>>>     brew update
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     add
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      -DUSE_OCE=ON
>>>>>>     -DOCE_DIR=/usr/local/opt/oce/OCE.framework/Versions/0.17/Resources/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     to your cmake line and it will be bundled automatically. Tested on rev
>>>>>>     38e7deb with no issues.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Chris Pavlina
>>>>>>     <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>>>     > Okay, this is friggin awesome. I can finally have models of
>>>>>>     > *everything*, it's so nice! :)
>>>>>>     >
>>>>>>     > Sexy PCB shot: https://misc.c4757p.com/12091-motherboard.png
>>>>>>     <https://misc.c4757p.com/12091-motherboard.png>
>>>>>>     >
>>>>>>     > Thanks Cirilo!
>>>>>>     >
>>>>>>     > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 04:45:33PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>>>>>     >>
>>>>>>     >>
>>>>>>     >> On 9/1/2016 4:18 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>>>>>     >> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 04:10:13PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>>>>>     >> >> On 9/1/2016 2:29 PM, José Ignacio wrote:
>>>>>>     >> >>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Wayne Stambaugh
>>>>>>     <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>>>     >> >>>> Sorry it took so long.  I took a look at Cirilo's changes an
>>>>>>     it looks
>>>>>>     >> >>>> good.  We still need a PKGBUILD file for msys2 with JPs
>>>>>>     patch so we
>>>>>>     >> >>>> don't have to build oce from source.
>>>>>>     >> >>>>
>>>>>>     >> >>>> When I merge Cirilo's 3d-plugin branch and I had to create a
>>>>>>     commit
>>>>>>     >> >>>> message which made me the commit author.  This seems brain
>>>>>>     dead to me.
>>>>>>     >> >>>> Here is the new commit log entry:
>>>>>>     >> >>>>
>>>>>>     >> >>>> commit 12c26047bffd54ccbb88348acfe7f653556450da
>>>>>>     >> >>>> Merge: fcedef8 b656a81
>>>>>>     >> >>>> Author: Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>     <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>>>>>     >> >>>> Date:   Thu Sep 1 11:59:44 2016 -0400
>>>>>>     >> >>>>
>>>>>>     >> >>>>     Merge remote-tracking branch 'cirilo/3d-plugin'
>>>>>>     >> >>>>
>>>>>>     >> >>>> I really only want to show Cirilo's commit log entries as a
>>>>>>     new commit.
>>>>>>     >> >>>> WTF! I'm liking git less every time I use it.  What do I
>>>>>>     need to do to
>>>>>>     >> >>>> get the correct commit history from Cirlo's 3d-plugin branch?
>>>>>>     >> >>>>
>>>>>>     >> >>>
>>>>>>     >> >>> Cirilo's commit history remains intact in the merged branch,
>>>>>>     you just
>>>>>>     >> >>> need to walk through that branch instead of master when
>>>>>>     reading the
>>>>>>     >> >>> commit logs. If cirilo's branch was rebased to the current
>>>>>>     master you
>>>>>>     >> >>> could do a fast-forward merge, which would graft his commits
>>>>>>     into the
>>>>>>     >> >>> master branch and make his last commit the "new master". In
>>>>>>     either
>>>>>>     >> >>> case the history is perfectly readable.
>>>>>>     >> >>>
>>>>>>     >> >>
>>>>>>     >> >> Yes but before I got chance to push my branch, Chris pushed a
>>>>>>     change so
>>>>>>     >> >> when I pulled his changes, git conveniently created yet
>>>>>>     another commit
>>>>>>     >> >> message.  Do we really want all this extra cruft in the commit
>>>>>>     log or do
>>>>>>     >> >> we want to rebase against the kicad master?
>>>>>>     >> >
>>>>>>     >> > Start using git pull --rebase like I suggested earlier, it
>>>>>>     would avoid
>>>>>>     >> > that.
>>>>>>     >> >
>>>>>>     >>
>>>>>>     >> I pushed Cirilo's OCE changes so hopefully I didn't fsck up the main
>>>>>>     >> repo too badly.  Thank you Cirilo for the OCE plugin work.
>>>>>>     >
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