Re: 64-bit MSVC projects ?

> 
> Thanks for the prompt reply Roger,
> 
> I tried the CMake approach but it quits after generating just the first part of the vcxproj file (the message I see is "Error in configuration process, project files may be invalid")
> 
> So I tried your 2nd approach (typing it into a Visual Studio Command Prompt) but that came up as an unrecognized command.  I do seem to have a DLL called vcpkg.dll - so do I need to run that command from somewhere else (e.g. from within the Visual Studio IDE somehow?)

You need to clone this repository: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
Then follow the instructions in the README to bootstrap, and then the vcpkg command will run properly.

For the former approach, I would look more closely at the configuration log messages; it likely failed to find some required library or tool.  Probably zlib. The handy thing with vcpkg is that it will build all prerequisites automatically, so makes it really easy to get all the libraries you need built and installed on Windows with minimal effort.  Almost as easy as Unix systems with package managers; it’s a big improvement upon building everything yourself, which is tedious and inefficient.

Kind regards,
Roger

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