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Re: [PATCH] Fixes for Visual Studio / vcpkg build

 

Once all of the dependencies for vcpkg are in place, I could see
actually using VS for development (I can't beleive I'm actually typing
this) on windows.  Who knew?

On 11/24/19 5:23 PM, Ian McInerney wrote:
> I think it is still missing the OCC/OCE package as well:
> https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/4968
> 
> -Ian
> 
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, 22:17 Wayne Stambaugh, <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hey Jon,
> 
>     I was playing around with vcpkg a couple of weeks ago and it's works
>     surprisingly well.  There is finally a sane way to build dependencies
>     and compile and link against them on windows.  The dependencies I could
>     not find in vcpkg are ngspice and wxPhoenix/wxWidgets which means that
>     we could not build and debug the simulator code and the wx python
>     extension support.  Did someone recently add ngspice and wxPhoneix to
>     vcpkg?  The Python code is also somewhat different as I assume that you
>     would use the default python install to build the Python extensions.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     On 11/24/19 12:40 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I got a build working using Visual Studio 2019 and vcpkg.
>     > Attached are three patches I needed to make so far.
>     > I'd appreciate some double-checking on these since cmake and wxwidgets
>     > can be a bit perilous.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > -Jon
>     >
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