cmake-init-clang-on-windows VS Vcpkg

Or LLVM Clang directly without a pseudo *nix environment: https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-clang-on-windows

While not embedded, but here is an example for compiling with LLVM Clang on Windows without needing vcvarsall.

I was informed that this is not the case. lld supports PE/COFF natively on Windows. You just need to provide some flags to use the MSVC .lib and include files to use Clang properly. Or use the vcvarsall, but that's stinky and I don't like having all that env stuff in my terminal all the time.

Regarding building, I'd advise staying as far away from Mingw, msys and Cygwin as possible. You can just use LLVM Clang without any issue on Windows. You can keep using vim with Clang tools as if you were on Linux still.

CMake, Clang and Conan work all the same on all operating systems. I don't know why you would like to force yourself into one kind of environment that might not suit your needs in other areas as well. On Windows, you can even use LLVM Clang without godawful hacks like mingw.

From a quick searching I found what it takes to compile a Windows executable on macOS, these flags could be very easily turned into a toolchain file and the situation would be similar on Linux as well.

cmake-init was just for a general project setup. One of the examples in fact shows what a toolchain file should look like.

You can also just use LLVM Clang on Windows. Still requires MSVC installed though, because of link.exe, system .libs and system headers.

5.4.5 can be compromised

https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/37197

vcpkg may expire assets after 1.5 years, so achieve long-term reproducibility you will need to cache your dependencies.... Somewhere. Not sure what the expected solution is.

https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/30546#issuecomment-1...

There were various approaches recommended depending on our language and ecosystem. My classmates who developed using Node.js were recommended npm, and PyPI or poetry for Python. Since my program is written in C++, I was recommended to look into one of vcpkg or conan, but I ultimately did not use either package manager.

Which dependencies are not in vcpkg? We can ask them to add it. It’s pretty easy just open an issue there https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues .

./vcpkg search netcdf gdal[netcdf] Enable NetCDF support minc 2.4.03#3 MINC - Medical Image NetCDF or MINC isn't netCDF minc[minc1] Support minc1 file format, requires NETCDF netcdf-c 4.8.1#2 A set of self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support th... netcdf-c[dap] Build with DAP remote access client support netcdf-c[hdf5] Build with HDF5 support netcdf-c[nczarr] Build with NCZarr cloud storage access support netcdf-c[nczarr-zip] Build with NCZarr ZIP support netcdf-c[netcdf-4] Build with netCDF-4 support netcdf-c[platform-default-features] Enable platform-dependent default features netcdf-c[tools] Build utilities netcdf-cxx4 4.3.1#4 a set of machine-independent data formats that support the creation, acces... The result may be outdated. Run `git pull` to get the latest results. If your port is not listed, please open an issue at and/or consider making a pull request. - https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/issues

The hyperscan update to vcpkg seems to have happened from 5.4.0 to 5.4.2 in this commit on Apr 20.

Dear Fictrac team, I am hoping to install Fictrac in our windows 11 x64 laptop (Visual Studio 2019, cMake 3.26.4). I followed the installation guideline on github page fictrac and used the latest vcpkg

This works fine if one wants to do stuff like clang main.cpp -lvulkan, or even find_package(Vulkan REQUIRED) in CMake, but it doesn't define VULKAN_SDK, and therefore doesn't work with vcpkg's Vulkan support, for instance. A fair bit of Vulkan development, tutorials, etc. assume that the entire SDK is installed, as-is.