vcpkg install --failed while trying to generate project files

chrxh / alien

ALIEN is a CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program.

https://alien-project.org

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

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vcpkg install --failed while trying to generate project files #50

Closed loukitkhemka closed 2 years ago

loukitkhemka commented 2 years ago

I keep getting "vcpkg install --failed" while I am trying to generate project files both in Windows 10 and Ubuntu.

Any help please? Thank you.

EDIT: I hate C++ projects for this specific reason. They simply don't work 99% of the time. Sure, I maybe novice, but there are simply too many package managers, compilers and build tool chain BS. What to learn, what to ignore? I simply want to build a project and just understand the source code. It is that simple. But that is a tall order in C++ ecosystem. Just by building the project, you lose all the motivation to even bother looking at the code, because you get tired.

chrxh commented 2 years ago

Compiling C++ projects can unfortunately be quite painful. On my developer machine I did the following:

install MS Visual Studio with CMake and Win SDK (I use VS 2019 but I hope that 2022 should also work)
set the directory for CMake in the path system variable
install CUDA Toolkit

And then check out the repository with git and run the build commands from the readme. Does this work?

chrxh commented 2 years ago

I tried compiling it on a fresh system with Windows 11. I noticed that certain download mirrors in the used vcpkg version do not work anymore. Try the following: In the directory ./external/vcpkg enter the command (which switches to a more recent vcpkg version) git switch d8783052cbf85bb5b1777b58b998c88d99357943 --detach and then follow the instructions from the ALIEN readme. I should update the newer vcpkg commit in the repro.

EDIT: I've updated the submodule to this commit. It would be best if you delete the already checked out ALIEN repo and try again.

loukitkhemka commented 2 years ago

-- Running vcpkg install Detecting compiler hash for triplet x64-windows... Run vcvarsall.bat to get Visual Studio env failed with exit code 1

I am getting the above error.

chrxh commented 2 years ago

Did you do the same steps as I described above? Which Visual Studio version are you using?

About your error message, I find the following solution in the search: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72125949/vcpkg-install-package-error-run-vcvarsall-bat-to-get-visual-studio-env-failed-w Have you already tried this?

loukitkhemka commented 2 years ago

Yes that has worked. Thank you.