Permit building against external resources (boost, quazip)

[davidperrenoud]

From e...@logic.net on January 08, 2013 20:20:55

Hi guys,

As part of the build of Fritzing for Fedora, I have to massage the source to conform to Fedora's packaging guidelines, which require that any bundled dependencies (like boost, quazip, etc) be removed and the system-provided versions be used instead (so that Fedora can easily push out a single update to, say, boost, and have every dependent package either automatically rebuild, or pull in the new libraries if a rebuild is unnecessary).

I'm using the attached patch to remove the dependence on quazip and boost (along with rm'ing the directories themselves in the RPM spec file prior to build), but this is a fairly hacky approach; would it be possible to expose the ability to build the system-provided versions of these if available (either by automatically detecting their presence, or simply a build option that disabled use of the embedded versions)?

Attachment: fritzing-use-external-libs.patch

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/fritzing/issues/detail?id=2367

[davidperrenoud]

From irasc...@gmail.com on January 08, 2013 23:40:08

Status: Accepted
Owner: irasc...@gmail.com
Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Enhancement

[davidperrenoud]

From irasc...@gmail.com on January 08, 2013 23:41:46

Issue 1898 has been merged into this issue.

[davidperrenoud]

From irasc...@gmail.com on January 10, 2013 15:32:34

If your build process includes qmake, then we could add some commandline arguments. For example you could already add

qmake "INCLUDEPATH+=/usr/include/quazip" "INCLUDEPATH+=/usr/include/minizip"

and we could set up a commandline "DEFINES+=..." as a switch to deal with the includes in folderutils.h.

If we're lucky, a command line "INCLUDEPATH-=src/lib/boost_1_43_0" might cancel the addition of that library in utils.pri.

As to the translation in quazipfile, I am removing it now ( r6789 ).

[davidperrenoud]

From irasc...@gmail.com on January 10, 2013 22:59:50

Oops, comment 3 is mostly irrelevant. We may as well try to make our linux version conformant. So I will incorporate your patch, but use #ifdefs so that the build works the current way on the other platforms.

[davidperrenoud]

From irasc...@gmail.com on January 11, 2013 04:22:09

fritzing under linux will now assume boost is installed, rather than using the library that is included in fritzing source. Mac and pc will still use the included version.

unfortunately, i can't seem to locate a quazip package for ubuntu 10.04.

[davidperrenoud]

From irasc...@gmail.com on January 12, 2013 23:20:20

if you add DEFINES+=QUAZIP_INSTALLED to qmake's command line then the build will skip quazip.pri, and the include files for folderutils will look like

#include <quazip/quazip.h>
#include <quazip/quazipfile.h>

I have not been able to completely test this because I have not found a libquazip-dev package.

Once this is proved to work, along with the changes in comments 3 and 5, the issue should be resolved.

Status: PartlyDone

[davidperrenoud]

From e...@logic.net on February 27, 2013 17:47:06

Late response, but: this worked like a champ with the latest release. Thanks!

[davidperrenoud]

From irasc...@gmail.com on February 27, 2013 22:01:13

Status: Fixed