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Re: Linux build environment

 

FWIW, fedora have a compat version in their repos which is built with gtk2.
The packages can coexist. I am just stating this because they used to only
have it built againt gtk3.

Den 16. aug. 2017 10.29 PM skrev "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Make sure whatever distro you are using has not built wxWidgets using
> gtk3.  This is known to cause all kinds of issues.  If you disto has
> done this, you will have to rebuild wxWidgets against gtk2 in order to
> build KiCad.
>
> On 8/16/2017 8:10 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 16.08.2017 09:16, Ingo Kletti wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a preferred Linux distro/build environment?
> >
> > No, it should work in any Linux distro where the requirements can be
> > met. Requiring people to install a different distribution than they are
> > used to would be a barrier to entry.
> >
> > If there is a problem on a particular setup we want to know about it, so
> > we can investigate. If the build instructions don't cover a particular
> > distribution, we want to know about it and improve the documentation.
> >
> > The only thing that may be problematic are really old releases, but
> > 16.04 is certainly not too old.
> >
> >    Simon
> >
> >
> >
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