Is it worthwhile putting in a backwards compatible fix for such an old version of wxWidgets?
Andrew On 9/21/07, Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > As mentioned in a previous thread, I haven't had time to monitor this > list in the past few weeks. Now, I'm trying to parse through 117 > threads or so finding anything related to FindwxWidgets, since I'm the > maintainer. > > I found this and for archival purposes, my reply below. > > On 8/27/07, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to use FindwxWidgets in the latest cmake and it seems it > > is not backward compatible. The cmake code is trying to do something > > like: > > > > $ wx-config --libs gl,adv > > > > But at least on my machine this is returning an error. One should run > instead: > > > > $ wx-config --libs > > -pthread -lwx_gtk-2.4 > > > > Using: > > > > $ wx-config --version > > 2.4.2 > > The problem is that the wx-config version that you are using, is older > (2.4.2). In newer versions of wxWidgets the wx-config supports this. I > will try to add support for this into the FindwxWidgets module, but I > can't merely change it to: > > wx-config --libs > > That is, because wxWidgets now builds multiple modular libraries by > default and not a monolithic build. By doing the above, it would link > to all libraries, when the objective of building the modular libraries > is precisely linking to only the ones you need. For example look at > the output below for the different calls: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> wx-config --libs > -L/usr/local/lib -pthread -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lwx_gtk2_aui-2.8 > -lwx_gtk2_xrc-2.8 -lwx_gtk2_qa-2.8 -lwx_gtk2_html-2.8 > -lwx_gtk2_adv-2.8 -lwx_gtk2_core-2.8 -lwx_base_xml-2.8 > -lwx_base_net-2.8 -lwx_base-2.8 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> wx-config --libs gl,base > -L/usr/local/lib -pthread -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lwx_gtk2_gl-2.8 -lwx_base- > 2.8 > > I will see if I can detect that it is an older version (2.4.2) and > then call (wx-config --libs) rather than (wx-config --libs ...). > > Hope this helps and sorry for such a late reply. > > --Miguel > _______________________________________________ > CMake mailing list > CMake@cmake.org > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake > -- ___________________________________________ Andrew J. P. Maclean Centre for Autonomous Systems The Rose Street Building J04 The University of Sydney 2006 NSW AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 2 9351 3283 Fax: +61 2 9351 7474 URL: http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/ ___________________________________________
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