vcpkg support

[krupitskas]

Hey!
Thanks for BGFX library, first. I think it's one of the best in the open source community.
I've saw such theme like "vcpkg" or "cmake" in the issues but with discussions I've decided to rise this again.
I really HATE cmake, in 1 month of work Im already submitted 3 bugs into kitware gitlab issue tracker...
However vcpkg today is the easiest way to receive precompiled dynamic/static package for closspatform use.
Can we think here about vcpkg support?
Also we can keep this discussion and look how many people will upvote it, if this is a thing.

[bkaradzic]

I would actually like bgfx to have support in those packages, but I'm not able to provide support nor maintain it. Which means this has to be outside of bgfx repo. So if you're willing to spend time creating vcpkg (or any other package, like brew, apt/debian, whatever else) it would be great if you do that in separate repo, and let me know once it's ready so I can reference it in documentation here: https://bkaradzic.github.io/bgfx/build.html#alternative-build-systems

[krupitskas]

Cool! The problem is that this approach generates a lot of side solutions, which is not tested, quite often abandoned or broken and more forks appear (search for bgfx.cmake, we even support our own). I beleive GENie can generate cmake project.
Im not very familiar with vcpkg system itself, but I know that it's requires cmake based input.
What if we can write a github action, which will run GENie on each tag push and provide CMake file for a vcpkg?
I can help here, but it should be inside bgfx repo though.

[bkaradzic]

Cool! The problem is that this approach generates a lot of side solutions, which is not tested, quite often abandoned or broken and more forks appear

Yes, that's the maintanance issues. If I accept this into repo, then maintanance burden would be offloaded on me. I don't use vcpkg myself, don't know anything about it, nor care to learn really. But I don't mind if someone else maintains it.

(search for bgfx.cmake, we even support our own). I beleive GENie can generate cmake project.

GENie CMake is experimental, and it's not fully featured. Not replacement for those bgfx.cmake (and forks) yet. Also no one is actively working on completing this, so there is no ETA for it.

I can help here, but it should be inside bgfx repo though.

No it shouldn't for reasons explained above. If it was in bgfx repo even issue with CI changing their rules (like travis.ci did recently) could produce bunch of work for me. And I don't really have time or desire to maintain things that are irrelevant for my use case.

[michaelkroener]

https://github.com/julianxhokaxhiu/FFNx/tree/master/.vcpkg/ports/bgfx
This project you are referencing as using bgfx in the readme has a custom vcpkg repository including bgfx