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I'm on OSX 10.12.4, and there seems to be an existing system installation of WxWidgets 3.0.2 as well as bakefile 0.2.10.

I didn't want to touch the system installed WxWidgets so I downloaded the tarball for WxWidgets 3.0.3, ran configure --preset=/somelocalfolder && make install.

I want to set up a Bakefile for a simple WxWidgets project that works on all platforms. I read bakefile_quickstart.txt, and decided to try and generate build files from build/bakefiles/wxpresets/sample/minimal.bkl

Running bakefile -f gnu minimal.bkl gave me the following error: 

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This file cannot be processed with Bakefile version older than 0.2.2.
You are using Bakefile version 0.2.10. Please install the newest version
from http://www.bakefile.org.
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/usr/local/share/bakefile/presets/wx.bkl:113: error: Bakefile not new enough
    included from /Users/prashanthcr/code/wxWidgets-3.0.3/build/bakefiles/wxpresets/sample/minimal.bkl:5

This error message doesn't make sense since I believe version 0.2.10 is greater than version 0.2.2.

I decided to download the newest version of Bakefile, version 1.2.5.1.

The command line flags and binary name seem to have changed completely, so I just tried the following:

bkl minimal.bkl

This gives me the error: 

sample/minimal.bkl: error: this file is incompatible with new Bakefile versions; please use Bakefile 0.2.x to process it

The two error messages contradict each other and I don't know what to do.

Prashanth Chandra
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    @PashanthChandra, why do you want to use Bakefile for you own project? What they do is generate Makefile's and MSVC solutions. You will still need to build the project. The official and recommended way is to copy the sample (minimal or otherwise) to some directory and start developing. Or even install an IDE (CodeBlocks, CodeLite, Xcode, MSVC) and work with it. – Igor May 08 '17 at 10:38
  • I started developing a basic application on my Mac using [this Makefile](https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Makefile). I wanted to be able to build this on Windows as well but I couldn't find a Makefile/vcproj files for it, and the quickstart gave me the impression that Bakefile could be used to generate both Windows and unix Makefiles for my project. – Prashanth Chandra May 08 '17 at 11:14
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    in the /samples/minimal everything is alrady generated. In Windows just copy that folder somewhere and compile using either MSVC or MinGW/gcc. – Igor May 08 '17 at 12:17

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This is indeed confusing, but let me try to explain: wxWidgets uses the old 0.x legacy bakefile branch. Bakefile 1.x is incompatible with it and can't be used with wxWidgets bakefiles. If you want to use bakefile for your own projects, please do use 1.x however as it's much better and simpler to use than 0.x.

VZ.
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  • Thanks for the clarifying that. However that doesn't explain why I couldn't run the `minimal.bkl` sample using `bakefile 0.2.10`. – Prashanth Chandra May 08 '17 at 11:17
  • This looks like a bug to me, I think there might be a problem with comparing `.9` and `.10` in bakefile 0.x code. – VZ. May 08 '17 at 11:23