Windows binaries for the dependencies of robotology-superbuild .

The following libraries (and their dependencies) are built using vcpkg:

• ace
• asio
• boost-asio
• boost-process
• boost-dll
• boost-filesystem
• boost-system
• freeglut
• gsl
• eigen3
• ode
• libxml2
• eigen3
• opencv
• matio
• sdl1
• sdl2
• qt5-base[latest]
• qt5-declarative
• qt5-multimedia
• qt5-quickcontrols
• qt5-quickcontrols2
• sqlite3[core,tool]

furthermore, the ipopt-binary and the esdcan-binary from robotology-vcpkg-binary-ports is also installed.

The binaries are generated by installing vcpkg in C:/robotology/vcpkg, installing the selected ports, and compressing the C:/robotology directory in a .zip archive.

See releases to download the archives.

To use the archive, you just need to donwload it and extract it in the C:/ directory.

To use then vcpkg libraries, you need to configure your CMake projects to use the vcpkg's toolchain as CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE, for example by configuring the projects as:

cmake -A x64 -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:/robotology/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake ..

See vcpkg's documentation for more info on how to use vcpkg-installed libraries.

You can install or remove ports from the vcpkg installation in C:/robotology/vcpkg as you do for any other vcpkg installation.

However, as this vcpkg installation contains some ports installed from the custom port repo contained in C:/robotology/vcpkg, due to a regression in vcpkg (see microsoft/vcpkg#10119) you need to pass the --overlay-ports=C:/robotology/vcpkg/robotology-vcpkg-binary-ports argument whenever you use vcpkg.

For example, to install a new port called <portname> the correct command is:

./vcpkg.exe install --overlay-ports=C:/robotology/vcpkg/robotology-vcpkg-binary-ports <portname>:x64-windows

To use the script in a GitHub Action script, you can use the following snippet:

    - name: Dependencies [Windows]
      if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
      run: |
        # To avoid spending a huge time compiling vcpkg dependencies, we download an archive  
        # that comes precompiled with all the ports that we need 
        choco install -y wget unzip
        # To avoid problems with non-relocatable packages, we unzip the archive exactly in the same directory
        # that has been used to create the pre-compiled archive
        cd C:/
        wget https://github.com/robotology/robotology-superbuild-dependencies-vcpkg/releases/download/<INSERT_HERE_THE_USED_VERSION>/vcpkg-robotology.zip
        unzip vcpkg-robotology.zip -d C:/
        rm vcpkg-robotology.zip