I don't think it's mandatory. I recently build a qt4 version of pivy without soqt.kkremitzki wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:09 pm If you are trying to build pivy, besides coin you will also need SoQt which depends on coin and is itself a pivy dependency.
I didn't want to put any pressure on you, but for pivy I guess it's simple the truth. Only freecad depends on pivy, so there won't be many people trying to compile pivy on Gentoo. Also i don't think it's a lot of work to get it done. Simple try some things and find out what's wrong. That is exactly what package-manager do all the time...Joel_graff wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:39 pm Don't feel like it's on you to fix it or even have an idea of how to solve it.
Also if no one of us is doing these ugly side projects, where would freecad be. I guess @wmayer has tons of better ideas than fixing annoying bugs... Pivy was a side side project of my self and still I didn't gave up porting it to py3...
So please try to build the suggested versions of coin and pivy, create an issue on GitHub and post all information you have. Currently I am on vacation, but I will have a look once I am back.