Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-07 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 4/7/2011 8:42 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > >> MinGW is not a prerequisite. Having a valid compiler is a prerequisite. >> MSVC, >> Borland, etc are all valid generator targets for CMake. Using CMake to >> download and build wxWidgets will be more beneficial to these users than >> MinGW >> u

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-07 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
> MinGW is not a prerequisite. Having a valid compiler is a prerequisite. > MSVC, > Borland, etc are all valid generator targets for CMake. Using CMake to > download and build wxWidgets will be more beneficial to these users than MinGW > users. My guess is most MinGW users are likely to insta

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-07 Thread Brian Sidebotham
On 7 April 2011 13:25, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 4/6/2011 7:38 PM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> On 5 April 2011 19:57, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >>> >> For MS Windows in particular (cross building from Linux or not, both), >> and >> other platforms too, I still say there is tremendous v

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-07 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 4/6/2011 7:38 PM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > On 5 April 2011 19:57, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> > For MS Windows in particular (cross building from Linux or not, both), and > other platforms too, I still say there is tremendous value in us providing > cmake "external project" support t

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-07 Thread Brian Sidebotham
On 7 April 2011 05:02, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 04/06/2011 07:52 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> Remember the script mode of cmake using -p > > I don't know if this is helpful, but more brainstorming to get around the > lack of initial MinGW: > > > $ cmake -P somecmakemagic.cmake > > and then the

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-06 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 04/06/2011 07:52 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > Remember the script mode of cmake using -p I don't know if this is helpful, but more brainstorming to get around the lack of initial MinGW: $ cmake -P somecmakemagic.cmake and then there is the potential usage of file(DOWNLOAD url file [TIMEOUT

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-06 Thread Brian Sidebotham
On 5 April 2011 19:57, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > For MS Windows in particular (cross building from Linux or not, both), and other platforms too, I still say there is tremendous value in us providing cmake "external project" support to build wxWidgets and anything else that needs

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-05 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
>>> For MS Windows in particular (cross building from Linux or not, both), and >>> other platforms too, I still say there is tremendous value in us providing >>> cmake "external project" support to build wxWidgets and anything else that >>> needs to be built. This is a separate subject. But I've

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-05 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 4/5/2011 2:35 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > >> CMake 2.8 was release in November of 2009. Maybe it's time to bump that up >> to >> 2.8.0? > > I can identify no reasons to not require 2.8.x, if it brings special > goodnesses in. I just merged the 2.8.4 wxWidgets FindwxWidgets with the local

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-05 Thread jean-pierre charras
Le 05/04/2011 15:44, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : We currently use a custom(?) version of FindwxWidgets.cmake that was cherry picked from a more current version of CMake than we were using at the time. The problem is our version of FindwxWidgets is suffering from bit rot. The version in CMake 2.8.4

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-05 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
> CMake 2.8 was release in November of 2009. Maybe it's time to bump that up to > 2.8.0? I can identify no reasons to not require 2.8.x, if it brings special goodnesses in. Really, if makes *your* life easier, do it. If customers complain, feel free to offer them their money back. __

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-05 Thread Brian Sidebotham
On 5 April 2011 17:59, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 4/5/2011 11:59 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> On 04/05/2011 08:44 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>> We currently use a custom(?) version of FindwxWidgets.cmake that was cherry >>> picked from a more current version of CMake than we were using at the t

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-05 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 4/5/2011 11:59 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 04/05/2011 08:44 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> We currently use a custom(?) version of FindwxWidgets.cmake that was cherry >> picked from a more current version of CMake than we were using at the time. >> The problem is our version of FindwxWidgets

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-05 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 04/05/2011 08:44 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > We currently use a custom(?) version of FindwxWidgets.cmake that was cherry > picked from a more current version of CMake than we were using at the time. > The problem is our version of FindwxWidgets is suffering from bit rot. The > version in CMake

Re: [Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-05 Thread Jerry Jacobs
On 4/5/11 3:44 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: We currently use a custom(?) version of FindwxWidgets.cmake that was cherry picked from a more current version of CMake than we were using at the time. The problem is our version of FindwxWidgets is suffering from bit rot. The version in CMake 2.8.4 ( an

[Kicad-developers] FindwxWidgets.cmake

2011-04-05 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
We currently use a custom(?) version of FindwxWidgets.cmake that was cherry picked from a more current version of CMake than we were using at the time. The problem is our version of FindwxWidgets is suffering from bit rot. The version in CMake 2.8.4 ( and possibly earlier ) has some enhances that