Re: wxGTK3 requirement for Audacity 3.0.0

On 3/26/21, Leland <[email protected]> wrote:
> We started requiring our version of wxWidgets because It includes important
> fixes that prevented crashes.  This is very much like what nearly every
> Linux distro does.  How many openSUSE packages have openSUSE specific
> patches?  What I'm disappointed about is why these Linux distros tell us
> that we're doing things wrong.  Why doesn't Ubuntu have the same package
> format as openSUSE.  How about Redhat's package format?  Why doesn't every
> Linux distro use the same package manager?
>
> My point is that every distro does they're own thing, so why are we the bad
> guys when we provide a library that contains patches that we have vetted
> and/or provided ourselves?
>
> However, if you MUST use your wxWidgets 3.2, simply remove this test in
> audacity/cmake-proxies/wxWidgets/CMakeLists.txt:
>
> string( REGEX MATCHALL "\".+(Audacity).+\"" ours "${output}")
> if( NOT ours )
>    message( FATAL_ERROR
>
> "\n########################################################################\
> n"
>       "Audacity version 3.0.0 or higher requires use of a customized
> version
> of "
>       "wxWidgets.  For details:\n"
>       "  https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Building_for_Distros\n"
>
> "########################################################################\n"
>    )
> endif()
>
> And Audacity runs just fine with wxGTK2.  At this time, that is actually
> the
> target we recommend. We will be retargeting to wxGTK3 soon(ish), but as of
> now, Audacity has issues when built against GTK3.
>

This is strange, when I had to change to wx 3.1x I first created gtk2
wxwidgets and on testing audacity 2.4.1 with the wxWidgets gtk2
variant, I had various gui distortion problems so I switched to gtk3
and everything wasw right. As a result I built the containers (non
STL) variant with gtk3. I've attached a screen shot of Audacity-2.4.2
built with wxGTK3-3.1.4
Thanks
Dave Plater

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