Re: wxWidgets 2.9 build

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Peter Geoghegan
<peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I took another look at getting OGL to build against 2.9 this evening
> (using Julian Smart's new and improved version with the ogl.tar.gz
> bakefile), and was successful. I hacked the Makefile to add -fPIC to
> CXXFLAGS. I'm working on a less hacky solution (basically, fixing the
> included Bakefile). I don't think that the included samples (which are
> are supposed to be built as binary executables) should have that flag.
> When I run the "studio" sample from the tree directly, I get this
> error:
>
> [peter(at)localhost studio]$ ./ogl2
> ./ogl2: error while loading shared libraries:
> libwxcode_gtk2u_ogl-2.9.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
>
> This is despite the fact that the relevant .so appears to be available:
>
> [peter(at)localhost lib]$ pwd
> /usr/local/lib
> [peter(at)localhost lib]$ ls -l *ogl*
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     28 Jan 22 20:48 libwxcode_gtk2u_ogl-2.9.so
> -> libwxcode_gtk2u_ogl-2.9.so.0
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     32 Jan 22 20:48
> libwxcode_gtk2u_ogl-2.9.so.0 -> libwxcode_gtk2u_ogl-2.9.so.0.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 676304 Jan 22 20:48 libwxcode_gtk2u_ogl-2.9.so.0.0.0
>
> I'm also concerned that the make install step doesn't install headers
> anywhere. I guess that there's an expectation that the end-user should
> manage that. It's not particularly clear what we should do about this.

Hmm - I'm currently wondering if we should enumerate all the
committers to that part of the wx tree (but not the bakefile, as we
wouldn't use it), and see if we can get permission from the rest of
them to relicence the code.

That should make life much easier, as we could just add the code to
our source tree, and use our own build system.

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