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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 31/01/2019 à 15:40, John Beard a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Two patches for building these libs:
> 
> 1) Make bitmaps a "Proper" library. By splitting it off like this, the
> includes for each of the hundreds of XPM cpp files do not need to suck
> in WX headers. This speeds compilation by something like 10x or more
> (it now builds in <5 seconds with -j6), with a similar reduction in
> the size of libbitmaps.a. Also, making it a proper library allows to
> use the CMake dependency mechanism better.
> 2) Do the same for the CMake of the polygon libraries, again
> simplifying all the "downstream" targets - they no longer need to
> manually specify the linkage to polygon or the include dirs.
> 
> Apparently, both these libraries were setting off static analysers, as
> they were a circular dependency. For example, bitmaps required common
> for the defs, but common required bitmaps for the images. This ended
> up pushing all the linkage down to the final executables, which is now
> much simpler (just link common, and you should get what you need, with
> includes set correctly).
> 
> Jenkins passes (MSVC and Msys2), but might be worth getting an OSX
> build as there is a different CMake command in there!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John

Hi John,

I have this cmake error when trying to build Kicad with these patches:

"CMake Error at pcbnew/CMakeLists.txt:645 (target_link_libraries):
  Object library target "pcbnew_kiface_objects" may not link to anything."

(cmake version 3.7.2, W7 32bits, msys2)


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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS