[Buildroot] [PATCH 02/23] package/cwiid: remove wmgui support, needs libgtk2

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at rnout.be
Thu Sep 11 19:35:38 UTC 2025



On 10/09/2025 23:32, Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot wrote:
> As we're about to remove libgtk2, let's drop the wmgui support from
> cwiid, which is libgtk2 only.
> 
> Note that cwiid hasn't seen a commit in the past 16 years, so there's
> no real hope to see wmgui fixed to have support for a more recent Gtk
> version. And perhaps this separately calls for removing cwiid
> entirely from Buildroot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>

  Applied to master, thanks.

  Regards,
  Arnout

> ---
>   Config.in.legacy        |  7 +++++++
>   package/cwiid/Config.in | 14 --------------
>   package/cwiid/cwiid.mk  |  9 +--------
>   3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
> index 33b60dfd42..4bb160c4a3 100644
> --- a/Config.in.legacy
> +++ b/Config.in.legacy
> @@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ endif
>   
>   comment "Legacy options removed in 2025.11"
>   
> +config BR2_PACKAGE_CWIID_WMGUI
> +	bool "cwiid wmgui has been removed"
> +	select BR2_LEGACY
> +	help
> +	  The wmgui part of cwiid required libgtk2, which has been
> +	  removed from Buildroot.
> +
>   config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_EV3DEV_LINUX_DRIVERS
>   	bool "ev3dev Linux drivers have been removed"
>   	select BR2_LEGACY
> diff --git a/package/cwiid/Config.in b/package/cwiid/Config.in
> index 44148eb188..0c1a97402a 100644
> --- a/package/cwiid/Config.in
> +++ b/package/cwiid/Config.in
> @@ -14,20 +14,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_CWIID
>   
>   	  https://github.com/abstrakraft/cwiid
>   
> -if BR2_PACKAGE_CWIID
> -config BR2_PACKAGE_CWIID_WMGUI
> -	bool "wmgui"
> -	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4 # libgtk2 -> pango -> harfbuzz
> -	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # libgtk2 -> pango -> harfbuzz
> -	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7 # libgtk2
> -	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libgtk2 -> libglib2
> -	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libgtk2 -> libglib2
> -	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # libgtk2 -> libglib2
> -	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP # libgtk2 -> pango
> -	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2
> -	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGTK2
> -endif
> -
>   comment "cwiid needs a toolchain w/ dynamic lib, threads, wchar, headers >= 3.18"
>   	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4
>   	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR || \
> diff --git a/package/cwiid/cwiid.mk b/package/cwiid/cwiid.mk
> index a11c56c0aa..e552da3b46 100644
> --- a/package/cwiid/cwiid.mk
> +++ b/package/cwiid/cwiid.mk
> @@ -17,13 +17,6 @@ CWIID_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf host-bison host-flex bluez5_utils
>   # Disable python support. This disables the 2 following things:
>   #   - wminput Python plugin support
>   #   - cwiid Python module
> -CWIID_CONF_OPTS = --without-python --disable-ldconfig
> -
> -ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_CWIID_WMGUI),y)
> -CWIID_DEPENDENCIES += libgtk2 libglib2
> -CWIID_CONF_OPTS += --enable-wmgui
> -else
> -CWIID_CONF_OPTS += --disable-wmgui
> -endif
> +CWIID_CONF_OPTS = --without-python --disable-ldconfig --disable-wmgui
>   
>   $(eval $(autotools-package))



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