Re: [Usbpicprog-technical] Can I build the cmdline tool without wxwidgets?

[Phil E. <spa...@ch...>]

Frans Schreuder wrote:
> Dear phil,
>
> Unfortunately the wxwidgets library is not just used for the gui, but also
> for loading the xml files with pic information.

Aargh.  Is there an older version of usbpicprog that uses wxWidgets
2.8?  Would that work with the firmware in my device?

I've already spent hours downloading and installing dependencies (e.g.
to get a sufficiently-new version of intltool, it replaced my entire
Perl installation!).  Would it be easier to install it on my Mac?

> The same way as you can build usbpicprog, it is also easy to build
> wxwidgets 2.9 along with 2.8, they won't harm each other.
> Then you can build usbpicprog as well and start usbpicprog as a command
> line application.
> It is probably possible to load the xml files without wxwidgets but not in
> the current code.

I'm curious to know why you would choose wxWidgets as an XML reader for
C++, compared to e.g. RapidXML or libxml++.


Regards,  Phil.