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Re: OCE vs. OCC default build flag

 

It did not work last time I tried it.

On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 14:43, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just looked and the 5.1.10 windows build is using OCE.  I thought we
> switched over to OCC for msys2 builds but apparently not.  I have
> switched to OCC on my windows msys2 builds.  I think we should switch
> the msys2 5.1 builds to OCC because it resolves some issues.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 5/17/2021 3:21 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> > After reviewing the thread that Nick linked
> > (https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6198
> > <https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6198>) I recall this
> > discussion more.
> >
> > I think that we should remove OCE altogether.  The existing versions
> > have bugs that we cannot fix and it is fully deprecated at the source
> > repository (https://github.com/tpaviot/oce/releases
> > <https://github.com/tpaviot/oce/releases>) in that it only tags
> upstream
> > releases and hasn't released any updates since 2018.
> >
> > Keeping OCE in the build tree as an option is just asking for headaches
> > that we can avoid in v6.
> >
> > -Seth
> >
> > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 12:07 PM Steven A. Falco <stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     I confirm that Fedora already selects OCC in its build scripts, both
> >     for the official 5.1 builds, and for the 5.99 nightlies.  The
> >     default can change without affecting Fedora.
> >
> >              Steve
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