gcompris-qt dependency to qml-box2d

[Timothée Giet]

Hi Bruno,

I had discussions about this issue a few months ago with Mageia
packagers, and they got it working by just removing the BuildRequires:
 pkgconfig(box2d) (see revision 1659498 on
http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/qml-box2d/current/SPECS/qml-box2d.spec
).

So, to make sure it builds using the embedded version of box2d, you need
to make sure that the library is not installed on the build system...

And if it really fails to build with the embedded box2d, that would be
quite a surprising news... It still builds fine on Arch Linux...

Timothée


Le 22/02/2021 à 19:19, Johnny Jazeix a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> we use it for 3 activities: balancebox, land_safe and submarine.
> So we can compile without it (-DQML_BOX2D_MODULE=disabled), but those
> activities won't be available.
>
> 1) Making a PR in https://github.com/qml-box2d/qml-box2d/
> <https://github.com/qml-box2d/qml-box2d/> with the latest version
> 2) forking qmlbox2d and maintaining it (at least so it can compile).
> 3) embed the last version of qml-box2d directly in the code. Not
> clean, no update but at least it should work for a long time and one
> less dependency for everyone.
>
> The author, for sure, does not have time to update:
> https://github.com/qml-box2d/qml-box2d/issues/126#issuecomment-668499372
> <https://github.com/qml-box2d/qml-box2d/issues/126#issuecomment-668499372>
>
> Do you have logs for the build issues? It looks strange for me that it
> does not build with the embedded Box2D version.
>
> Johnny
>
> Le lun. 22 févr. 2021 à 19:07, Bruno Friedmann <bruno at ioda-net.ch
> <mailto:bruno at ioda-net.ch>> a écrit :
>
>     Hello the team,
>
>     I wonder if we still have a strong dependency to qml-box2d. I'm
>     asking that
>     cause since box2d new version qml-box2d doesn't build anymore
>     (yeap rolling
>     release like openSUSE Tumbleweed have no mercy on dead projects.
>
>     I'm seeing no more activities around qml-box2d since 2018, issues
>     increasing
>     and unfortunately no more contributions on it.
>
>     So the situations is the following: box2d got updated to 2.4.1,
>     qml-box2d head
>     doesn't build with it. But also with it's own embedded Box2D
>     Gcompris-qt depending on qml-box2d thus doesn't build anymore,
>     I've a few
>     weeks to fix that before being kicked of Tumbleweed :-(
>
>     So my question is there a way to get right of it ?
>
>     -- 
>
>     Bruno Friedmann
>
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>
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