Re: [RFH] CMake: detect if being run via Visual Studio, independent of build generator?

On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 6:52 PM Matt Rogers [off-list ref] wrote:

I think the best middle of the line solution would be to just provide a manual
knob for turning vcpkg support on/off here and offer configurations in
CMakePresets.json for both situations.  The only downside here is that I believe
a lot of IDE's are aggressive about running the cmake configuration step and may
try to install vcpkg even if it is unnecessary.  But automatic
generation can generally
be turned off by users I guess.

I agree. I would suggest vcpkg should be used by default for Windows platforms.
This way IDE's won't complain and command line users can straight up
disable this behaviour.

Thank You,
Sibi Siddharthan