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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

MSVC support is a work in progress so it's not that its not supported, it's
just someone needs to fix it ;)

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 6:06 PM Roberto Fernández Bautista <
roberto.fer.bau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just tried your branch and unfortunately couldn't get it to compile on
> Visual Studio (even after a "vcpkg install lemon:x64-windows" and "vcpkg
> integrate install")... I got the cmake error "lemon not found"
>
> I know Visual Studio isn't officially supported but any ideas what I could
> do to install lemon correctly so visual studio/ cmake can recognise it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Roberto
>
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 22:06, Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I have a branch on my fork [1] called "im/lemon" that can be used.
>> It can be found here: https://gitlab.com/imcinerney/kicad/-/tree/im/lemon.
>> If the build passes with that, it means lemon integration is working. CMake
>> should error during configuration if the lemon executable can't be found
>>
>> -Ian
>>
>> [1] https://gitlab.com/imcinerney/kicad
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 10:01 PM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a branch packages can use to make sure their lemon integration
>>> is working?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 4:00 PM Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Two new build-time dependencies are being added to the master branch
>>>> for v6:
>>>> * lemon - The lemon parser generator
>>>> * GTK3 (linux only) - the GTK3 libraries (only GTK3, not GTK2 - that is
>>>> not supported anymore). This is technically also a runtime dependency, but
>>>> we also need GTK3 for wxWidgets, so it shouldn't be a new runtime dep (only
>>>> needing the build headers are new).
>>>>
>>>> The lemon parser is needed to fix
>>>> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/5013 by changing how the
>>>> files are generated (in MR
>>>> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/318). GTK3 is
>>>> needed to enable new functionality inside the platform-specific
>>>> KIPLATFORM library for Linux (such as overriding menu settings, moving
>>>> files to trash, etc.)
>>>>
>>>> All developers should make sure they have these new dependencies
>>>> installed, and nightly builds should add them to their build script (Steve,
>>>> thanks for updating Fedora's so quick!) I have opened issue on GitLab for
>>>> the builders on there:
>>>> https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-win-builder/-/issues/101
>>>> https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-mac-builder/-/issues/332
>>>>
>>>> https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-ubuntu-builder/kicad-daily-package/-/issues/2
>>>>
>>>> I haven't merged any code into master that needs them yet, but I would
>>>> like to merge the lemon fix as soon as possible (the problem it is solving
>>>> has attracted increased attention it seems).
>>>>
>>>> -Ian
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Mark