How to specify the Visual Studio platform toolset during install

Question

I'm using Visual Studio 2019 and I need to install several libraries using a specific platform toolset.

Right now I have three platform toolsets intalled: Visual Studio 2015 (v140), Visual Studio 2017 (v141) and Visual Studio 2019 (v142).

Is there a way to specify the platform toolset dirung the installation of a package? By default vcpkg is using the latest tools (v142 in my case).

This works great:

vcpkg install grpc:x86-windows-static

I tried this:

vcpkg install grpc:x86-windows-static-v141

which doesn't work as expected.

Answer 1

You will probably need to create a new triplet the existing files are %vcpkgroot%\vcpkg\triplets and use them as reference. You will probably need to set the following cmake set from the vcpkg readme about tirplets