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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

pkgconfig is only available for builds within vcpkg for builds of libraries.

kicad does not build within vcpkg, it builds outside vcpkg using vcpkg.
This is the intended mode of use for applications.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 12:09 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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Mark