How can I use a forked version of vcpkg? #43857
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I am the upstream maintainer of a package that is a candidate to be added to vcpkg (see #43752). There is a PR with the new package which is called morphologica. I have cloned vcpkg from the PR (rremilian's fork) and I successfully installed morphologica with I am now trying to use this fork of vcpkg with Visual Studio 2022 to compile a program that uses morphologica as a library. The problem I have is that after I create The message Does anyone have any idea why creating the manifest files is problematic? best wishes, Seb James |
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I thought I'd solved it. I found https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcpkg/consume/git-registries#3---add-private-registries-to-your-vcpkg-configuration-file which helped me to hand-write my new The original was: {
"default-registry": {
"kind": "git",
"baseline": "aeb9a78803c8457984b73e6e5ac3b979725fa0d1",
"repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg"
},
"registries": [
{
"kind": "artifact",
"location": "https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg-ce-catalog/archive/refs/heads/main.zip",
"name": "microsoft"
}
]
}Which I replaced with: {
"default-registry": {
"kind": "git",
"baseline": "aeb9a78803c8457984b73e6e5ac3b979725fa0d1",
"repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg"
},
"registries": [
{
"kind": "git",
"repository": "https://github.com/rremilian/vcpkg",
"reference": "vcpkg-registry",
"baseline": "aeb9a78803c8457984b73e6e5ac3b979725fa0d1",
"packages": [ "morphologica" ]
}
]
}But this is not yet the solution. The output from an attempt to build the program: |
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It didn't appear to make a difference: |
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I think that for the time being, you could also create a custom port and use that from the upstream repository. LE: |
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Also, it works if you change the {
"default-registry": {
"kind": "git",
"baseline": "aeb9a78803c8457984b73e6e5ac3b979725fa0d1",
"repository": "https://github.com/rremilian/vcpkg",
"reference": "morphologica-v3.2"
},
"registries": [
{
"kind": "artifact",
"location": "https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg-ce-catalog/archive/refs/heads/main.zip",
"name": "microsoft"
}
]
}The |
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Ah, I did think the branch would probably need to be specified. |
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I think this is the best answer to the question of the discussion. I will just test it works for me. |
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Progress! In a git bash terminal (because I am familiar with bash), copy morphologica into custom-ports in my Visual Studio Project repository: sebj@sebrog MINGW64 ~/vcpkg (morphologica-v3.2)
$ pwd
/c/Users/sebj/vcpkg
sebj@sebrog MINGW64 ~/vcpkg (morphologica-v3.2)
$ mkdir ../source/repos/Morphtest2/custom-ports
sebj@sebrog MINGW64 ~/vcpkg (morphologica-v3.2)
$ cp -Ra ports/morphologica ../source/repos/Morphtest2/custom-ports/
sebj@sebrog MINGW64 ~/vcpkg (morphologica-v3.2)
$ ls ../source/repos/Morphtest2/custom-ports/
morphologica/
sebj@sebrog MINGW64 ~/vcpkg (morphologica-v3.2)Switch to a powershell terminal (I don't know why, I guess because I believe superstitiously that it might be 'closer' to Visual Studio in Microsoft world :) and: |
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Finally, I add ...now when I build the project, it installs morphologica!! and I'm on to a new, unrelated (and easily fixable) error about not specifying the right version of C++. Thank you! |
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I think this is happening because when Given the fact that This is the correct definition: |
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That worked (without setting any additional options in Visual Studio Project->properties -> vcpkg->Additional Options). My full vcpkg-configuration.json file was: {
"default-registry": {
"kind": "git",
"baseline": "aeb9a78803c8457984b73e6e5ac3b979725fa0d1",
"repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg"
},
"registries": [
{
"kind": "git",
"repository": "https://github.com/rremilian/vcpkg",
"reference": "morphologica-v3.2",
"baseline": "aeb9a78803c8457984b73e6e5ac3b979725fa0d1",
"packages": [ "morphologica" ]
}
]
} |
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I think this is happening because when
vcpkg new --applicationis executed, it will create avcpkg-configuration.jsonfile, which will contain the registry in which to search for packages.Given the fact that
microsoft/vcpkgdoesn't currently havemorphologica, it will not work.You can use a custom port or a custom registry which will point to my fork. I think your first approach was good, but you have to add the
referenceto the custom registry.This is the correct definition: