Re: [lmi] [PATCH] Trivial patch to avoid building unnecessary wxWidgets parts

[Greg Chicares]

On 2015-03-04 00:45, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> 
>  I've recently mentioned in passing that install_wx.make could avoid
> building some components of wxWidgets which were not used by lmi. As I had
> to rebuild wx with gcc 3.4 once more myself today, I decided to change it
> myself just to speed up the build, so here is the resulting trivial patch:

Committed 20150306T1754Z, revision 6121.

I used to run the wx sample programs often, but haven't run any of
them for years, so I agree that  '--without-subdirs' is appropriate.

> might enjoy faster build times (and smaller DLLs) too. Additionally, it is
> somewhat strange to disable wxStyledTextCtrl (the existing "--disable-stc")
> but not the other similar components, so this patch makes things more
> consistent as well.

I don't seem to have recorded how long it took previously, but...

/lmi/src/lmi[1]$time make wx_version=3.1.0 
wx-3.1.0-md5=3c049ed2f470d81627ea5d513a06aa15 $coefficiency -f install_wx.make 
>../log 2>&1
541.79s user 821.04s system 165% cpu 13:41.95 total

The wx libraries we use are smaller now: about thirty MB, down from forty.

BTW, the automated GUI test came in very handy here. I needn't worry
much that we've suppressed a part of wx that we might actually use in
some exotic case but is loaded on demand e.g. with LoadLibrary().