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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Did I misunderstand Marks's comments about MSVC?  I though he said that
pkg-config would not be available to KiCad at runtime and that it would
be available (I'm assuming via vcpkg) at build time.  I really want to
avoid a separate solution for MSVC if possible.

On 3/23/21 11:32 AM, Jon Evans wrote:
> As Wayne points out, compatibility with older ngspice versions needs to
> be considered, as well as Windows/vcpkg.
> 
> Since pkg-config apparently can't be used in the MSVC/vcpkg environment
> during the kicad build, the only option I can think of is to generate a
> version header as part of the ngspice vcpkg port itself.
> 
> So, there would be two different paths, one for Windows/MSVC and one for
> other platforms.
> 
> -Jon
> 
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:28 AM Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Ah, yes that sounds reasonable. I guess
>     /CMakeModules/Findngspice.cmake could be modified to use pkg-config to
>     get the version and paths needed?
> 
>     On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 4:20 PM Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >
>     > It sounds like the preference is to move away from using a
>     config.h at all, which means all the KiCad packaging systems would
>     need to update to use pkg-config to generate a header which can then
>     be included in kicad's build process.  Is that correct?
>     >
>     > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:15 AM Jonatan Liljedahl
>     <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> If ngspice-35 is not ready to be tagged soon, perhaps Holger could
>     >> make a branch called "ngspice-34-config-fix" or something, based on
>     >> the ngspice-34 tag but only adding the simple fix of installing
>     >> config.h into /include/ngspice/ instead? Then KiCad packagers could
>     >> build from this branch? Unless some packages are not using locally
>     >> built ngspice? Just some ideas of possible solutions...
>     >>
>     >> Cheers
>     >>
>     >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 3:22 PM Holger Vogt
>     <holger.vogt@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:holger.vogt@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >> >
>     >> > The intention is to not at all install config.h.
>     >> >
>     >> > Installing it into ./include was a bug in ngspice-34 which has
>     already
>     >> > been removed in the current ngspice master branch.
>     >> >
>     >> > Perhaps you may make use of this bug by automatically moving
>     config.h
>     >> > from <...>/include/ to <...>/include/ngspice/ when building KiCad,
>     >> > before we will have a solution without config.h in ngspice-35?
>     >> >
>     >> >
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