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.
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.