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wxwidgets2.8 package

Enable libwxmsw (with unicode and amd64)

Bug #123242 reported by André Klitzing on 2007-06-30

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	wxwidgets2.8 (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

I like to request to enable the target "binary-cross" by default to have libwxmsw in ubuntu for cross-compilation.
wxWidgets and mingw32 are both in universe and I think that it is ok to build wxMSW in the standard distribution. I don't think that there are licences problems with windows.

I added a patch that I applied to Gutsy 2.8-Version. I enabled unicode-build of libwxmsw if wxWidgets will be built with unicode and I added package-support for amd64.
I built a w32-program with mingw32 under amd64 with that and it works without problems.

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André Klitzing (misery) wrote on 2007-06-30:

diff of debian/rules and debian/control Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain)

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André Klitzing (misery) wrote on 2007-06-30:

pbuilder-log on i386 Edit (132.8 KiB, text/plain)

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André Klitzing (misery) wrote on 2007-06-30:

pbuilder-log on amd64 Edit (133.5 KiB, text/plain)

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote on 2007-06-30:

Thanks for your work on this. I've added the patch tag to attract the attention of packagers. If you have time, and would like to submit a new revision, please prepare one, and attach a debdiff between the current repository version and your candidate to this bug.

Changed in wxwidgets2.8:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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André Klitzing (misery) wrote on 2007-06-30:

.debdiff Edit (3.9 KiB, text/plain)

Thanks for your fast response. Here is the requested debdiff.

wxwidgets2.8 (2.8.4.0-0ubuntu3) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Added build dependency mingw32 for libwxmsw
  * Added "--enable-unicode" for unicode builds of libwxmsw-packages
  * Added amd64-architecture for libwxmsw-packages
  * Build "binary-cross" target by default
  * Closes LP: #123242

-- Andre Klitzing <email address hidden> Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:40:13 +0200

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2007-07-06:

Matthias: Can you check , if this makes sense?

Changed in wxwidgets2.8:
assignee:	nobody → doko

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote on 2007-07-06:

maybe it makes sense, but I would like to see this disabled by default.

- lengthens the build time
- adds a b-d on mingw, which is unlikely to be kept if the package should propmote to main.

I'd suggest to omit the change for the b-d and the binary target and add a README instead.

Changed in wxwidgets2.8:
assignee:	doko → nobody
status:	New → Confirmed

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote on 2007-07-06:

I've unsubscribed ubuntu-universe-sponsors pending further discussion of the appropriate solution for this. Once a decision has been reached, please resubscribe ubuntu-universe-sponsors if sponsorship of the upload is required.

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André Klitzing (misery) wrote on 2007-07-07:

The build time is only 20 minutes more. Which user cares about it? No one will build it every day.
If wxWidgets will get into main, mingw32 can be removed if it will happen but I don't think that wxWidgets will left universe soon.

There is already a README from Debian. But does a developer, who wants to build a w32-program under ubuntu, knows how to build libwxmsw with debian-patch? He will start to ./configure and "make install" it by himself.

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André Klitzing (misery) wrote on 2007-09-21:

#10

By the way... I added the gutsy-version with this patch to my ppa. So everyone who wants to test or cross-compile programs for windows can use this.
https://launchpad.net/~misery/+archive

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Vadim Zeitlin (vadim-wxwidgets) wrote on 2008-02-15:

#11

FWIW I strongly agree with the comment of Matthias from 2007-07-06. We'd like to avoid divergencies between Debian, Ubuntu and our own (i.e. from wx svn) packages and we definitely don't want to enable wxMSW build to our version by default because some of us to build them pretty often and adding 20 minutes to each build is highly undesirable.

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote on 2008-02-15:

#12

I'm marking this "Won't Fix" based on feedback from both upstream and the initial packager.

André, please prepare a patch that could be applied by the end-user for inclusion in the package, and describe the process by which it may be applied and used by an end-user in README.Debian. A debdiff including this would likely be welcome, and the best way to address this use case for Ubuntu.

If such a debdiff is prepared, please reset the Status from "Won't Fix" to "Confirmed", and adjust the title appropriately so that any sponsor will not be confused by the conflict.