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Re: IMPORTANT build change for OSX users

 

Awesome!

I’ll still give it a week or so before removing the mutex’s so that everyone can catch up.

That being said, if some of you forget and then start experiencing seemingly-random crashes, you’ll know why. ;)

Cheers,
Jeff


> On 10 May 2019, at 14:42, Adam Wolf <adamwwolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I have made this change in kicad-mac-builder, and it should show up in nightlies tonight and going forward.
> 
> Thanks folks!
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Thu, May 9, 2019, 2:01 PM Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> OK, so the config statement is in the dev docs, but I’m not sure it should be.  Now that 4.x is a few versions behind us, I think we should retire all the doc about building without kicad-mac-builder.  Does that sound reasonable?
> 
> Either way, we need to update the config of kicad-mac-builder.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> 
>> On 9 May 2019, at 18:57, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> 
>> I don’t know whether the configure statement is in them or not.  (I haven’t been able to check because it seems the server is down.)
>> 
>> New folks won’t need the rest of the instructions as they’ll be building from scratch.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 9 May 2019, at 17:28, Michael Kavanagh <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Should the build instructions in the developers docs be updated?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Michael
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 00:03, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> I’ve added a check in the headers that will fail a compile if wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8 is set.  This will allow us to remove a bunch of our mutex hacks.  (It turns out that it’s only on for OSX; the other platforms already have it off.)
>>> 
>>> You’ll need to do 3 things in your wxWidgets tree:
>>> 
>>> 1) git fetch (your origin should be set to git@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:git@xxxxxxxxxx>:KiCad/wxWidgets.git and you should be on branch kicad/macos-wx-3.0)
>>> 2) run your configure command without the --enable-UTF8 option [1]
>>> 3) make install (in wxWidgets/build)
>>> 
>>> (You’ll probably need to do a clean and a re-build of Kicad after this.)
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jeff.
>>> 
>>> [1] This is the configure I used:
>>> 
>>> ../configure \
>>>     --prefix=`pwd`/../wx-bin \
>>>     --with-opengl \
>>>     --enable-aui \
>>>     --enable-html \
>>>     --enable-stl \
>>>     --enable-debug \
>>>     --enable-debug-gdb \
>>>     --with-libjpeg=builtin \
>>>     --with-libpng=builtin \
>>>     --with-regex=builtin \
>>>     --with-libtiff=builtin \
>>>     --with-zlib=builtin \
>>>     --with-expat=builtin \
>>>     --without-liblzma \
>>>     --with-macosx-version-min=10.13 \
>>>     --enable-universal-binary=x86_64 \
>>>     CC=clang \
>>>     CXX=clang++
>>> 
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