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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

LOL, "lemon" in VCPKG is not Lemon the grammar generator, it's Lemon the
boost graph library.

And lemon grammar itself, isn't a real library. It's a single C file. It's
very unlikely to be accepted into vcpkg.

We may as well just build it on the fly in kicad
https://www.sqlite.org/src/file/tool/lemon.c


On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 6:37 PM Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
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Mark