[opengl] build failure about vcpkg

[dg0yt]

Missing library is mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git-9.0.0.6373.5be8fcd83-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

This download was updated in vcpkg in May 2023 (#29067). Now you must update.

[phume03]

The issue is duplicated for all ports that depend on libwinpthread, evidently a dependency fixed to the mingw compiler, which is called up to compile ports when building... hence the issue!

[phume03]

Missing library is mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git-9.0.0.6373.5be8fcd83-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

This download was updated in vcpkg in May 2023 (#29067). Now you must update.

Alright, that seems about what I would want to do. I tried the latest VCPKG cloned via GitHub and it works, that is a 2024 version. So, you are right. Presumably, it downloads and uses a newer version of MinGW. I did not confirm. There are no tools to update VCPKG in the VisualStudio install. I tried to uninstall it and reinstall using the VS installer (simulating an update, minus the 23GB it otherwise requires for a complete VS upgrade/update), and it just installed the 2023 version that I already had.

Is there a way to make the update without applying "brute force" i.e. replacing VCPKG in the VS program files folder? There always should be an "easy way", before forcing the user to make drastic manual changes. If not an update of VCPKG, maybe a clue of how to make a smaller change of updating a registry config file that tells VCPKG which version of MinGW to fetch if it will not break other dependencies (i.e. newer versions of compilers drop syntax making old files fail in compilation and needing an update to their codebase)?

[phume03]

Anyone else that happens on this, I resolved to compile the removed files for myself and replace them in the vcpkg local data folder. I hope it will work. Still fighting personal live-boot arch space issues (headache). Another solution is to update vcpkg (if you are working with a version around 2023, it will pull libwinpthread v9 and a newer version will pull the latest v10/11 which will just work).

I would hope that someone hosts an archive for the old vcpkg dependencies/tools to make things easier.