Re: Note about wxWidgets-3.2.10.tar.gz download

Oops, I read the actual Downloads page but didn't read the GitHub
release page notices obviously.  Sorry about that!

carl

On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 4:22=E2=80=AFPM Vadim Zeitlin <[email protected]>=
 wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:40:38 -0700 Carl Godkin wrote:
>
> CG> It seems that the wx community prefers to distribute source files .ta=
r.bz2 .
>
>  They're much smaller compared to gzip-compressed files, so yes.
>
> CG> However, I happened to download the .tar.gz file at the end of the
> CG> long list of assets at the bottom of this page:
> CG>
> CG> https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/tag/v3.2.10
> CG>
> CG> It doesn't contain everything and, if you try using cmake to build
> CG> from there, you get this error :
> CG>
> CG> CMake Error at build/cmake/functions.cmake:719 (message):
> CG>   wxregex file does not exist:
> CG>   "D:/build/wxWidgets-3.2.10/3rdparty/pcre/src/pcre2_auto_possess.c".=
  Make
> CG>   sure you checkout the git submodules.
> CG> Call Stack (most recent call first):
> CG>   build/cmake/lib/regex.cmake:24 (wx_add_builtin_library)
> CG>   build/cmake/lib/CMakeLists.txt:29 (include)
> CG>
> CG> I think that the two "Source code" assets at the end of the list migh=
t
> CG> be auto generated by GitHub without the submodules.
>
>  Yes. We prominently mention this in the README on the downloads page and
> warn people not to use these files.
>
> CG> It might save someone some frustration if these could be deleted or
> CG> suppressed.
>
>  I don't know how to do it, if anybody does, please let me know. Otherwis=
e
> we'll have to continue to rely on people reading the README.
>
>  Regards,
> VZ
>
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