On 06/06/2020 19:55, Topher Petty wrote:
Out of curiosity, why not list hamlib as a prerequisite and have
people install it separately, so that those of us that already use it
and keep it updated don't have duplicated libraries on our systems
that can potentially cause version conflicts?
Hamlib has installers for windows and Mac on the git site, iirc..
I just tracked down difficulties I was having with SKCClogger and
FLDIGI to the differing versions of hamlib installed on my system, and
un-installing wsjtx fixed those other two bits of software...
Going to bump up to 2.2.1 to test... Crossing my fingers I don't get
to play "lib track bingo" again.
73 de AI8W, Chris
Hi Chris,
the last release of Hamlib was several Years ago. Although the project
has active development it is rather overdue for a new release. We have
worked with a snapshot of Hamlib, which we would prefer to bundle with
WSJT-X, at least until an official release with support for current rigs
is available. We have over the last several versions included some
patches that were ahead of even the Hamlib master branch, all of those
have been submitted and accepted by the Hamlib developers. We would
either have to deny a lot of users support for their new rigs or ask
them to install versions of Hamlib that may clash with other
appliactions or system installed versions. By static linking Hamlib we
avoid that mess, unfortunately most Linux distributions object to static
linking other projects's libraries so the package maintainers have to
unpick out build scripts to comply. We would gladly revert to having
WSJT-X dynamically link to Hamlib, just like it does with Qt and FFTW3
but on balance at the moment it is not the best option for users. That
may change soon.
Note that your assertion that the Hamlib used with WSJT-X might cause
conflicts is rubbish, the WSJT-X exposes nothing from the Hamlib it
uses. There are no version conflicts unless you have messed with our
build scripts.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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