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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guess that's not going to work.  We may just have to punt on a
sensible solution. :(

On 3/23/21 6:03 PM, Mark Roszko wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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>
>     > <mailto: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>
>     >     <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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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