Description
Hello,
I was looking around ncurses port and I didn't find a way to enable widec.
In https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/Modules/FindCurses.cmake there's a flag that makes this switch possible:
# we don't know anything about cursesw, so only ncurses
# may be ncursesw
if(NOT CURSES_NEED_WIDE)
set(NCURSES_LIBRARY_NAME "ncurses")
set(CURSES_FORM_LIBRARY_NAME "form")
else()
set(NCURSES_LIBRARY_NAME "ncursesw")
set(CURSES_FORM_LIBRARY_NAME "formw")
# Also, if we are searching for wide curses - we are actually searching
# for ncurses, we don't know about any other unicode version.
set(CURSES_NEED_NCURSES TRUE)
endif()
In ncurses port there's an area where such options are set:
vcpkg_configure_make(
SOURCE_PATH "${SOURCE_PATH}"
DETERMINE_BUILD_TRIPLET
NO_ADDITIONAL_PATHS
OPTIONS
${OPTIONS}
--disable-db-install
--enable-pc-files
--without-ada
--without-debug # "lib model"
--without-manpages
--without-progs
--without-tack
--without-tests
--with-pkg-config-libdir=libdir
)
But using vcpkg dependencies from a JSON file:
set(CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/MY_PROJECT/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"
CACHE STRING "Vcpkg toolchain file")
I believe that the library is built before any CMake flags are taken into consideration:
set(CURSES_NEED_WIDE TRUE)
set(CURSES_NEED_NCURSES TRUE)
Because of the vcpkg JSON dependency file.
Is there a way to create a feature that can switch between these two? If there's any prior example or with an explanation I'm willing to do a PR as well.
Thank you!
Proposed solution
Switch for --enable-widec as a port feature.
Something similar I've seen here:
https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/ports/libzip/vcpkg.json
With the following port file: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/ports/libzip/portfile.cmake.
If this is something acceptable I can try making a PR.
Describe alternatives you've considered
No response
Additional context
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