Re: [Plplot-devel] build plplot using CMAKE using MSYS makefiles on windows 10

[Greg J. <gv...@gm...>]

So I found a reference to the discussion about the unicode patching in wx:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wx-dev/MTYzgOqLdfU

And here is discussion on including the replacement file in MSYS2:

https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/pull/727

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Greg Jung <gv...@gm...> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 2:13 AM, Laurent Berger <
> lau...@un...> wrote:
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>> Thanks Greg,
>>
>> with your patch linking problem is solved. Can you post an answer in this
>> question https://forums.wxwidgets.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=42882&p=17
>> 4262#p174262
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/maynardGK/wxWidgets/commit/
> cb28fe5c5c49be4467a5d044f6fa4f7885972931
>
> I first submitted the patch in github around jul 30, 2015 and it went to a
> discussion somewhere in the bowels of the wxwidgets,  where after several
> back-and-forth about what the issue was, the wx guy decided it was
> "worthwhile"
> to consider a fix of somesort - or maybe he just wanted to leave that
> impression so I would stop replying.  I also suggested it be included in
> the MSYS2 repo mash-up but since it was no one else's problem, evidently
> not worthy.
> So providing me another example of the fuitility of propogating patches
> into a well-worn package.
>
>> Now there is still a problem in cmake process because I have to modify
>> file plplot\buildmingw64\examples\c++\CMakeFiles\wxPLplotDemo.dir\linklibs.rsp
>> to link wxPlplotDemo
>>
>> in this file I have changed all  /f/lib/wxWidgets-3.1.0 in
>> f:/lib/wxWidgets-3.1.0. May be it is not a bug in plot cmake but in cmake.
>>
>>
>> Yes the references in the .rsp file are in native format for me because I
> have edited the wxconfig file as follows:
>
>> # Determine the base directories we require.
>>
>> prefix=${input_option_prefix-${this_prefix:-/mingw32}}
>>
>> if [ "x${MSYSTEM}" = "xMINGW32" ] || [ "x${MSYSTEM}" = "xMINGW64" ]; then
>>
>>     prefix=$(cygpath -m ${prefix})
>>
>> fi
>>
>> exec_prefix=${input_option_exec_prefix-${input_option_
>>> prefix-${this_exec_prefix:-${prefix}}}}
>>
>> wxconfdir="${exec_prefix}/lib/wx/config"
>>
>>