From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> The idea of having CMake support in Git's source tree is to enable contributors on Windows to start contributing with little effort. To that end, we just added some sensible defaults that will let users open the worktree in Visual Studio and start building. This expects the dependencies (such as zlib) to be available already, though. If they are not available, we expect the user to run `compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_install.bat`. Rather than requiring this step to be manual, detect the situation and run it as part of the CMake configuration step. This concludes our journey to make it as effortless as possible to start developing Git in Visual Studio: all the developer needs to do is to clone Git's repository, open the worktree via `File>Open>Folder...` and wait for CMake to finish configuring. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt index 13d958f5a6..6a92ec9763 100644 --- a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt +++ b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14) set(CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../..) if(WIN32) set(VCPKG_DIR "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/compat/vcbuild/vcpkg") + if(NOT EXISTS ${VCPKG_DIR}) + message("Initializinge vcpkg and building the Git's dependencies (this will take a while...)") + execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_install.bat) + endif() list(APPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "${VCPKG_DIR}/installed/x64-windows") # In the vcpkg edition, we need this to be able to link to libcurl -- gitgitgadget