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mman1235
mman1235

Reputation: 51

vcpkg setup errors on command line

I am trying to compile dlib 19.4 using the vcpkg tool

since I am having trouble compiling CMAKE and working with Boost.Python

to fix compiler issues for dlib.

Though I am having problems even running the basic steps

to get the vcpkg package to work:

(I also downloaded Visual Studio 2017 for this tool)

cmd output part 1 cmd output part 2 cmd output part 3

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2247

Answers (1)

stoper
stoper

Reputation: 186

Looking at executed command (git init), you initialized empty git repository for vcpkg - that is likely wrong. This bootstrap.ps1 script fails internally when trying to fetch existing revisions. vcpkg doesn't want to reside in just any git repository, it wants "its" git repository. vcpkg uses git as a distribution platform and later to perform updates.

So instead, you should clone vcpkg repository to some directory, e.g.:

C:\test>git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git vcpkg_test
Cloning into 'vcpkg_test'...
...
Checking out files: 100% (876/876), done.

C:\test>cd vcpkg_test

C:\test\vcpkg_test>powershell -exec bypass scripts\bootstrap.ps1

https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/

Additionally I see errors regarding VS2017 C++ support. VS2017 is an IDE with multiple optionally supported languages (i.e. you could have only C# support installed). Please make sure you have "Desktop development with C++" workload installed - as vcpkg is for C++. You can update the installation at any time by running installer again (Modify).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/install-visual-studio

Upvotes: 1

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