lukka / cppcmakevcpkgtemplate

A template project to build a C++/CMake/vcpkg based projects with IDE and GitHub Actions. Build is sped up with caching of artifacts.

Hi there, I am Luca 👋

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[qt5-base] fails to build on mac runner "xcodebuild: error: SDK "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk" cannot be located."

I started a fresh clone of this and tried to use qt5-base but the runner reports:

https://github.com/ericfont/SerialAudio/runs/4172526046?check_suite_focus=true#step:5:1533

  Building package qt5-base[core]:x64-osx...
  -- Figuring out qt target mkspec. Target arch x64
  -- Target mkspec set to: macx-clang
  -- Host mkspec not set. Qt's own buildsystem will try to figure out the host system
  -- Downloading https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.15/5.15.2/submodules/qtbase-everywhere-src-5.15.2.tar.xz;https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/qt/official_releases/qt/5.15/5.15.2/submodules/qtbase-everywhere-src-5.15.2.tar.xz -> qtbase-everywhere-src-5.15.2.tar.xz...
  -- Extracting source /Users/runner/work/SerialAudio/SerialAudio/vcpkg/downloads/qtbase-everywhere-src-5.15.2.tar.xz
  -- Applying patch patches/winmain_pro.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/windows_prf.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/qt_app.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/gui_configure.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/icu.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/xlib.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/egl.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/zstdd.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/mysql_plugin_include.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/mysql-configure.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/Qt5BasicConfig.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/Qt5PluginTarget.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/create_cmake.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/Qt5GuiConfigExtras.patch
  -- Applying patch patches/limits_include.patch
  -- Using source at /Users/runner/work/SerialAudio/SerialAudio/vcpkg/buildtrees/qt5-base/src/5.15.2-fa8de595e1.clean
  xcodebuild: error: SDK "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk" cannot be located.
  xcrun: error: unable to lookup item 'SDKVersion' in SDK '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk'
  -- Detected OSX SDK Version: 
  CMake Error at ports/qt5-base/portfile.cmake:323 (string):
  Error:   string sub-command REGEX, mode MATCH needs at least 5 arguments total to

Having minimal dependencies

Hi,

vcpkg.json doesn't allow to have minimal dependencies.
you can't specify qtbase[core,gui] for example.

How did you manage to overcome it?

Regards,
Alex

Why are all the caches named 'vcpkg'?

I'm not sure if this is coming from your github action or from vcpkg, but I get a cache per dependency, but they're all named 'vcpkg' so I can't see what they are and I can't invalidate a particular one manually should that become necessary.

How to change preset in Visual Studio [Debug, Release, RelWithDebInfo etc.]

Hi,

Firstly, thanks for your template. I use it in all my C++ projects now.

By default visual studio builds the "Debug" preset and I haven't been able to find a way to use the other presets. It seems you can change this in VS code but my vscode builds keep failing.

I have searched everywhere for how to do this. Maybe I'm missing something stupid.

There is a way to build using cmake like in the yaml file, but this seems to always reconfigure everything and doesn't use cached packages.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Why build in the source dir?

"binaryDir": "${sourceDir}/builds/${presetName}",

Why do you put the build directory inside the source directory instead of doing an out-of-tree build?

I thought best practices recommended out of tree builds.

Licence question

Hey

I am a young programmer and i would like to use your template for my projects.
Am i allowed with the licence you use, to "take" this template, manipulate it and use it in my own projects?

FYI: Video mentioning this template is available

Hi,

I just did a presentation on Using GitHub Actions for Continuous Integration last night for Utah C++ Programmers. I uploaded the video to YouTube and show how to use your template workflow at the end of the video. (The first part of the video is explaining the github action framework and how to set things up manually.)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q8BQtvr8sY

You can set the toolchain directly in a configure preset

You don't need to set CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE, just set the toolchainFile value of the configure preset.