On Oct 17, 2010, at 22:02 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 10/16/2010 2:52 PM, Martijn Kuipers wrote: >> <snip> >>> There are two ways that wxWidgets depends on expat: >>> >>> 1) wxXml class depends on expat. >>> >>> 2) xrc depends on wxXml which depends on expat >>> >>> >>> My current theory is this: >>> >>> wxWidgets folks have probably gotten their build system fairly robust >>> for users of 2), i.e. xrc. >>> >>> For those that are only using 1), like Kicad, then they still have a >>> hole or two. When we say "they", >>> >>> Perhaps a test should be done to depend on the xrc support, even though >>> we don't use it. That might be another way to consider plugging this hole. >>> >>> The provider of wxWidgets is definitely a factor also to consider also, >>> where does it come from? If it comes from the distro repo, then there >>> is a package maintainer in this picture also, else not. >>> >>> >>> Dick >> >> Thanks Dick and Wayne for your clear explanation. Though even if it is a wx >> problem, should we not plug the hole while we await a fix from upstream? > > Martin, > > On my home machine with wxWidgets build as individual static libraries > using expat included with wxWidgets, wx-config --libs xml yields the > following output: > > -L/mingw/lib -mthreads /mingw/lib/libwx_baseud_xml-2.8.a > /mingw/lib/libwx_baseud-2.8.a -lwxregexud-2.8 -lwxexpatd-2.8 -lz > -lrpcrt4 -luuid -lodbc32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lwinspool -lwinmm -lshell32 > -lcomctl32 -lcomdlg32 -lctl3d32 -ladvapi32 -lwsock32 -lgdi32 > > It appears that in this case, wx-config is returning the correct expat > library to link against. I'll check my machine a work tomorrow. I'm > pretty sure I build wxWidgets using the expat library I build separately > and see if it includes -lexpat instead of -lwxexpatd-2.8. > > Wayne
Thanks Wayne, I am on OSX if that makes a difference. Marco has already created a bug-report at wx, so let's see what they do. /Martijn > >> >> /Martijn >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
