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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Thomas,

I looked over you merge request and it changes seem fine.  I still need
to test it but until the console crash issue is resolved, I will not
approve the patch.  Hopefully someone can help you out with the mutex
locking issue.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 10/21/2018 6:46 AM, Thomas Pointhuber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Now with Python 3 merged it would be nice to get support for (optional)
> wxPhoenix support into 5.1 as well. I have a preliminary branch running,
> which works on Linux quite well (wx3.0.4+GTK3+python3.7+wxPhoenix). It's
> mainly based on
> patch-sets @mmccoo wrote some time ago.
> 
> https://github.com/pointhi/kicad-source-mirror/tree/wx-python
> 
> For windows, nickoe helped me to get a first build of this branch with
> Python2+wxPython to ensure the old stack is not broken. Unfortunately,
> closing the scripting console causes pcbnew to hang and then crash.
> 
> https://jenkins.simonrichter.eu/job/windows-kicad-msys2-patch/169/
> 
> I was able to reproduce the problem on Linux with
> (wx3.0.4+GTK3+python2.7+wxPython). It seems some mutex is not
> initialized, but I don't know how to fix this issue. The bug is likely
> introduced due to the fact that the new code uses wx.FindWindowById to
> find the parent instead of providing a direct reference to the window.
> Unfortunately, keeping the old code-path would require us to include
> wxpy_api.h (which will be included in the next wxPhoenix release) and
> the introduction of SIP as new dependency.
> 
> ```
> [Thread 0x7fffd6739700 (LWP 29045) exited]
> 12:39:51: Debug: pthread_mutex_[timed]lock(): mutex not initialized
> 
> Thread 1 "pcbnew" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007ffff7492d50 in wxMutex::Lock() () from /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0
> (gdb) backtrace
> #0  0x00007ffff7492d50 in wxMutex::Lock() () at
> /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0
> #1  0x00007ffff7826cfb in wxApp::DoIdle() () at
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk3u_core-3.0.so.0
> #2  0x00007ffff7826e94 in  () at /usr/lib/libwx_gtk3u_core-3.0.so.0
> #3  0x00007ffff52ee271 in g_main_context_dispatch () at
> /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #4  0x00007ffff52eff89 in  () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #5  0x00007ffff52f0f62 in g_main_loop_run () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #6  0x00007ffff58e41af in gtk_main () at /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0
> #7  0x00007ffff7843c46 in wxGUIEventLoop::DoRun() () at
> /usr/lib/libwx_gtk3u_core-3.0.so.0
> #8  0x00007ffff7390bae in wxEventLoopBase::Run() () at
> /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0
> #9  0x00007ffff7355517 in wxAppConsoleBase::MainLoop() () at
> /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0
> #10 0x0000555555589955 in APP_SINGLE_TOP::OnRun() (this=0x5555556b1f50)
> at kicad/common/single_top.cpp:186
> #11 0x00007ffff73dd4c8 in wxEntry(int&, wchar_t**) () at
> /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0
> #12 0x0000555555584a50 in main(int, char**) (argc=1,
> argv=0x7fffffffd9e8) at kicad/common/single_top.cpp:260
> ```
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 
> 
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