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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not sure there is much history of vcpkg and Python working
together, so this might be breaking new ground.  It is nominally a
package manager for C++ libraries, after all.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 12:51 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The wxPython Phoenix build system is ugly.  Before the Phoenix work, it
> used to respect the Python distutils configuration.  Now it just steps
> all over the Python distutils settings on windows and assumes that the
> only build platform used on windows is msvc.
>
> I have experience using Python distutils to build Python libraries so I
> can help with this although it's been a while so I'm a bit rusty.  I've
> never been a big fan of distutils.  It always seemed like a solution in
> search of a problem to me.  There are so many config/build tools that do
> the same thing far less painfully.
>
> One problem I see is that Python distutils is very much tied to the
> current Python version installed.  I don't know how vcpkg handles
> Python.  Do they use the installed Python or is it packaged as a stand
> alone port inside vcpkg?  If they use the installed Python, this
> significantly complicates things as we will have to provide a build for
> every supported version of Python that could be installed on someones
> system.  There is a big advantage with the current way we handle Python
> on windows.
>
> On 7/7/20 8:59 AM, Jon Evans wrote:
> > Yes, wxWidgets I can now use straight from vcpkg.
> >
> > I took a look at wxPython phoenix and the build system is...something else.
> > Is anyone more experienced with Python build systems?
> > It seems like the happy path for vcpkg is for projects that use cmake.
> > This hybrid of Python and C++ with custom build system in Python looks
> > like a headache to integrate.
> >
> > I have not looked at SWIG yet.  OCC it seems like is in progress (we
> > are less worried about that one)
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 7:31 AM Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Nope, I'm building straight out of vcpkg now.
> >> Jon Evans posted the patches to kicad's findwxwidgets back in November fyi.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:39 AM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Mark
> >>>
> >>> I still need to patch FindwxWidgets.cmake, using this version:
> >>> https://gist.github.com/nickoe/d3c224a2587eff8ea959bc383a993520
> >>>
> >>> See there two vcpkg issues:
> >>> https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/1843
> >>> https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/4756
> >>>
> >>> I thought you were using a selfbuilt version of wxwidgets. Have you
> >>> started to use it directly from vcpkg?
> >>>
> >>> I use:
> >>>
> >>> cmake ^
> >>>     -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=%WORKSPACE%\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake ^
> >>>     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=%WORKSPACE%\install
> >>> -DCMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY:PATH=%WORKSPACE%\_pdb ^
> >>>     -DCMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY:PATH=%WORKSPACE%\_bin ^
> >>>     -DKICAD_SPICE=OFF ^
> >>>     -DKICAD_USE_OCE=OFF ^
> >>>     -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF ^
> >>>     -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF ^
> >>>     -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF ^
> >>>     ..\src
> >>>
> >>> cmake --build . --config %build% --target install -- /M
> >>>
> >>> Recently I started to get this error at install time:
> >>>
> >>> 23:48:21 -- Found OpenGL: opengl32
> >>> 23:48:21 CMake Error at C:/Program
> >>> Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.17/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:164
> >>> (message):
> >>> 23:48:21   Could NOT find GLEW (missing: GLEW_INCLUDE_DIR GLEW_LIBRARY)
> >>> 23:48:21 Call Stack (most recent call first):
> >>> 23:48:21   C:/Program
> >>> Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.17/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:445
> >>> (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
> >>> 23:48:21   CMakeModules/FindGLEW.cmake:38 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
> >>> 23:48:21   C:/Jenkins/workspace/windows-kicad-msvc-vcpkg/build/release/cpu/x86/label/msvc/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake:405
> >>> (_find_package)
> >>> 23:48:21   CMakeLists.txt:586 (find_package)
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 01:49, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. cmake scripts already work with wxwidgets, that was already done awhile back. I've been building with MSVC for awhile
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> One dependency that'll need "porting" is ngspice.
> >>>> But let me put this out there, does it make sense to leave ngspice to a higher level distro and not built as part of kicad?
> >>>> We've already had cases of repackaging Windows and macOS just to bump ngspice versions up.
> >>>> Why not make it standard baseline as part of kicad instead of allowing versions to be mixed?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 3:04 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Just a FYI, we have not really solved wxpython phoenix for macos yet,
> >>>>> though some progress were made recently.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For MSVC there are a number of issues yet to be addressed, this is
> >>>>> with the intention of using vcpkg.
> >>>>>  1. Fix cmake scripts for wxwidgets
> >>>>>  2. Add opencascade to vcpkg
> >>>>>  3. Add swig to vcpkg (or sip if that is what we want to use in the future)
> >>>>>  4. Probably a small handful of other things need to be done
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 20:35, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I love this part:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> wxPython4.0 (needed for Python3)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> And I thought our versioning was challenged. ;)
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> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Mark
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mark
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