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Re: OCE vs. OCC default build flag

 

I would prefer we keep this change to 5.99/6.0 only and not force a default
change in 5.1 builds. There are enough other dependency changes going on
for future v6 that packagers/users have to handle I think it is more
reasonable to force it there.

-Ian

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 5:35 PM Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> See
> https://gitlab.com/eelik-kicad/kicad/-/wikis/How-to-build-KiCad-on-Ubuntu-(the-easy-way)
>
> The reason I started this thread was that I saw that practically all
> packages were using OCC already, so it's available.
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 6:04 PM Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > How will this affect those of us who build KiCad from source? I have
> liboce
> > packages installed which provide OCE. If you change to OCC what
> package(s)
> > will I need then? The distro I use (Linux Mint) has libocct (Open CASCADE
> > Technology) packages. Is that what I will need or will I have to find
> > another source (ie. a PPA) for the support libraries?
> >
>
> Eeli Kaikkonen
>
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