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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Does vcpkg support pkg-config?

vcpkg can use pkg-config for building its own libraries.
However vcpkg will not share it outside of itself, meaning kicad has no
ability to use it easily

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 3:18 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Would pkg-config work on all platforms?  I know it works on Linux and
> msys2.  I would rather not have a separate hack for every platform if we
> can avoid it.  Does vcpkg support pkg-config?  If so, then it should be
> possible to use it on msvc builds as well.
>
> On 3/22/21 2:57 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> > Bumping this thread as we don't seem to have a resolution yet.
> >
> > The Windows vcpkg package works as there is still a config.h with the
> > version in the "visualc" directory.
> >
> > But, MacOS doesn't build and I guess some Linux distros don't either.
> >
> > Can we make pkg-config work for MacOS?
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 1:45 PM Carsten Schoenert
> > <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Am 03.02.21 um 13:03 schrieb jp charras:
> >     > OTOH, a version.h file is not a bad idea (read: for me a very good
> >     idea):
> >     >
> >     > at least the name is already a useful comment and it request only
> >     a very
> >     > few amount of work.
> >     >
> >     > Many tools use this trick (for instance opencascade, and most of
> >     other
> >     > tools we are using in Kicad), and one **big** advantage it works
> >     outside
> >     > the libtool stuff.
> >
> >     For simple things like version detection pkg-config is already
> enough,
> >     no need for mostly incompatible hacks. Even different shells on the
> same
> >     host can behavior really unexpected.
> >
> >     If you need to detect the version of ngspice you will need to do this
> >     this already before any build is started.
> >
> >     > $ pkg-config --modversion ngspice
> >     > 33
> >     --
> >     Regards
> >     Carsten
> >
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Mark