GameNetworkingSockets 1.4.1 not linking with protobuf-cpp 30.2

[poirierlouis]

xmake 2.9.8

Recently, protobuf-cpp was updated to 30.2 (was 29.3).
It is used as a dependency for package GameNetworkingSockets v1.4.1. Unfortunately, it is not compatible with protobuf-cpp 30.2. I use the following to try and select the version add_requires("protobuf-cpp ~29.3").

If I try to run xmake -r, I'm getting this output:

in xmake-repo:
  -> protobuf-cpp#1 30.2 [runtimes:"MT", from:gamenetworkingsockets, license:BSD-3-Clause]
please input: y (y/n/m)
n
error: packages(protobuf-cpp#1): must be installed!

I don't want to install protobuf-cpp 30.2 for now, and it should fallback to the version I mentioned, when doing add_requires("protobuf-cpp ~29.3").

At some point, I could build and it failed at linking step. When running with xmake -rvD, I could see path to .lib of protobuf-cpp using 30.2 instead of 29.3. This seems unexpected / wrong given version number is specified in add_requires.

Any idea what is wrong in my setup? Can it be some cache issue? If so, what steps should I do to clean it properly?

I'd appreciate any feedback :)

[star-hengxing]

Try add_requireconfs("**.protobuf-cpp", {override = true, version = "29.3"})
https://xmake.io/#/manual/global_interfaces?id=add_requireconfs

[poirierlouis]

Thank you :) Exactly what I was looking for.

Maybe it might be nice to have a shortcut/alias option, something like this:

add_requires("protobuf-cpp 29.3", {deps = {"*"}}) -- version enforced for all packages which adds protobuf-cpp (when
                                                  -- version is not specified there for example)

add_requires("protobuf-cpp 29.3", {deps = {"GameNetworkingSockets"}}) -- version enforced only for
                                                                      -- GameNetworkingSockets package