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by 90s_dev 372 days ago
... at least if I can get the simplest Visual Studio + CMake + vcpkg hello world working.

Which I can't.

This always happens every few years. It takes me about a week to get a C++ program compiling and running, and by the end of it, I've lost all motivation, forget how any of it works, and delete it all and move back to TypeScript/web stuff. At least that I know despite all its warts.

[edit] figured it out

Hello me from the future, googling this in a few years. It's actually really simple: just follow the same steps on that page you were on[1] except you HAVE TO run the `vcpkg new --application` and `vcpkg add port fmt` commands in the dev cmd prompt, you can't just add the file manually for some reason, even though that's all it seems like it's doing.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcpkg/get_started/get-star...

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I can't do it.

I can't work in Visual Studio. It's so unintuitive.

I have to do this in VS Code.