> 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 <stambau...@gmail.com> 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.schoen...@t-online.de <mailto:c.schoen...@t-online.de>> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mark
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