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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The option KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3 doesn't even exist anymore.  I
recommend that people who are having issues get rid of your CMake
cache and start fresh, you have a lot of left over variables that may
be confusing things.  When we remove a variable from our CMake
configuration, many times it does not get removed from your cache.

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 5:16 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You don't need to specify the type, but cmake will accept it as well and that is how it is written by cmake in the CMakeCache.txt.
>
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 at 20:51, Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 2021-06-15 6:32 a.m., Marco Ciampa wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 12:22:42AM +0300, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
>> [snip]
>> >> That's where cmake UIs come handy. Try ccmake or cmake-gui (they are
>> [snip]
>> >
>> > Exactly, Kevin is right but using the cmake-gui command it was very easy
>> > to figure out how to change the variables to make it compile for me.
>>
>> I changed a symlink on my machine to make 'python' point to 'python3'. I
>> also rm'ed the build directory. I seem to be over the problem with it
>> finding the right version of Python when both 2.7 and 3.6 are installed.
>>
>> Now it complains that it can't find wxPython/Phoenix. AFAICT, that means I
>> need version 4 of wx. I only have 3 and the distro I'm using doesn't have
>> version 4 available so I can no longer build KiCAD v6. At least I solved the
>> previous problem. :)
>>
>> > //Build for Python 3 instead of 2 (default OFF).
>> > KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3:BOOL=ON
>>
>> Is this the new way of specifying whether a setting is enabled or not? You
>> need to specify the setting type and not just whether it is on or off? In
>> the past I just have just used <setting>=<state>.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Kevin.
>>
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