Hi Bill, Greg, and all --
Congratulations to Bill on finishing (nearly?) a monumental job! Your
new code will mark a big step forward for WSJT-X.
Similar congratulations to Greg, for his recent work on JTSDK, a
self-contained WSJT software development kit for Windows. I am already
finding these tools to be a big help in building and maintaining WSJT,
WSPR, MAP65, WSJT-X, and WSPR-X. I'll be posting download links on the
WSJT web site very soon.
The combination of Bill's new code and Greg's new tools enabled me to
build and run a WSJT-X version that calls itself "WSJT-X 1.4.0, local"
within a few minutes after Bill's r3929 commit -- essentially "out of
the box".
More precisely: on the first go, after entering "build wsjtx" in Greg's
C:\JTSDK-QT environment, CMake complained that it could not find the
hamlib library (as Bill had expected). As a temporary measure, I copied
an existing libhamlib.dll.a into the ...\src\wsjtx directory. CMake
then ran to completion, and WSJT-X was alive.
The only other message of note was
"Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE)"
I suppose this is because it wants to find CPack, and that's not yet in
the JTSDK-QT package?
Bill, would it make sense for now to include your Windows
libhamlib.dll.a in the svn repository? This would mean that others can
build a WSJT-X that should behave in Windows as yours does. We can do
it in a more conventional way after the hamlib changes have been released.
About JTSDK:
The present plan is to put links to three self-extracting windows
executables on the WSJT web site:
JTSDK-DOC.exe 3 MB - for building our asciidoc-based manuals
JTSDK-PY.exe 93 MB - for building WSJT and WSPR
JTSDK-QT.exe 458 MB - for building MAP65, WSJT-X, and WSPR-X
These packages will surely continue to evolve, but they are already
*very* usable and *very* convenient. I am using them now for all
Windows-based builds.
Those for MAP65, WSJT-X, and WSPR-X are all done with CMake. Currently
builds of WSJT and WSPR are driven by Windows *.bat scripts and use
makefiles.
For others who may wish to use the JTSDK tools: some instructions and
download links will be available very soon -- possibly even later today.
Final comment: after some delay for unknown reasons, I finally got word
that the wsjt-devel subscribers list will soon be transferred to a new
list at SourceForge. I hope we can transfer these communications to
that list very soon.
-- 73, Joe, K1JT
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