Re: [wxlua-users] How to configure wxlua to *not* link wxpng library?

[Paul K <pau...@ya...>]

Hi John,

I ended up patching the makefile
(luamodule/CMakeFiles/wxLuaModules.dir/link.txt), but would prefer
something a bit more robust.

Paul.

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Paul K <pau...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I ran into an issue with configuring wxlua to use system libpng
> library. I tried both --with-libpng=builtin and --with-libpng=sys, but
> I get exactly the same result.
>
> This discussion
> (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/wx-users/2QWQD0qUVUc)
> indicates that it's better to use a system library, but I can't
> configure wxlua to *not* link builtin library as can be see from this
> output from cmake:
>
> -- * - wxWidgets_LIBRARIES         =
> -L/home/paul/zbs/build/deps/lib;-pthread;;;/home/paul/zbs/build/deps/lib
> /libwx_gtk2u_stc-2.9.a;/home/paul/zbs/build/deps/lib/libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.9.a;/home/paul/zbs/build/deps/lib
> /libwx_baseu_net-2.9.a;/home/paul/zbs/build/deps/lib/libwx_gtk2u_html-2.9.a;/home/paul/zbs/build/deps/lib
> /libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.9.a;/home/paul/zbs/build/deps/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.9.a;/home/paul/zbs/build/deps/lib
> /libwx_baseu-2.9.a;-lwxscintilla-2.9;-pthread;-lgthread-2.0;-lrt;-lX11;-lXxf86vm;-lgtk-x11-2.0;-lgdk-x11-2.0;-latk-
> 1.0;-lgio-2.0;-lpangoft2-1.0;-lpangocairo-1.0;-lgdk_pixbuf-2.0;-lcairo;-lpango-1.0;-lfreetype;-lfontconfig;-lgobject-
> 2.0;-lglib-2.0;-lwxregexu-2.9;-lwxjpeg-2.9;-lwxpng-2.9;-lwxzlib-2.9;-ldl;-lm
>
> (note the last last that includes -lwxpng-2.9). I tried (using brute
> force) to exclude wxpng from the link command, but failed. Ideally
> wxlua should somehow check if the library is configured as "builtin"
> or "sys", but for now I just need to check if this is going to work
> for me, so, I'm fine with modifying it manually. I need to exclude
> libpng as it creates problems with systems libraries required by GTK
> on Linux.
>
> What is the way for me to tell wxlua *not* to include wxpng-2.9? Thank you.
>
> Paul.