Scott Talbert
424d832d1a
The CMake build already supported an external NanoSVG package, but the
Autoconf build always required the bundled 3rdparty/nanosvg copy.
Make --with-nanosvg a WX_ARG_SYS_WITH option ("sys"/"builtin"/"yes"/"no")
and, for the system case, check for <nanosvg/nanosvg.h> where the
distribution packages (Debian, Fedora, ...) install it. If a compiled
nanosvg library is also present, link with it; otherwise compile the
header-only implementation into wxWidgets as was done before.
Include the headers as <nanosvg/nanosvg.h> to match their installed
location, and add the parent of the package include directory in the
CMake helper so this keeps working there for non-standard prefixes.
Also fix build/cmake/lib/nanosvg.cmake to decide whether a compiled
library is available from the imported target type rather than from
hardcoded IMPORTED_LOCATION_<CONFIG> properties: the latter misses
packages that only set IMPORTED_LOCATION_NOCONFIG (e.g. Fedora's),
which made it compile the implementation in and link the shared
library at the same time.
With this it's possible to build against the system NanoSVG development
package with 3rdparty/nanosvg removed entirely.
Closes #26965.
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wxWidgets is a free and open source cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.
wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for all the major desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting the differences in the non-GUI aspects between them. It is free for the use in both open source and commercial applications, comes with the full, easy to read and modify, source and extensive documentation and a collection of more than a hundred examples. You can learn more about wxWidgets at https://www.wxwidgets.org/ and read its documentation online at https://docs.wxwidgets.org/
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