Allow projects using the CMake integration to automatically select an appropriate 'static' triplet

[fredemmott]

With MSBuild I can do something like this:

 <PropertyGroup Label="Globals">
 <!-- .... -->
 <VcpkgTriplet Condition="'$(Platform)'=='Win32'">x86-windows-static</VcpkgTriplet>
 <VcpkgTriplet Condition="'$(Platform)'=='x64'">x64-windows-static</VcpkgTriplet>
</PropertyGroup>

it would be nice if I could do something similar when using the CMake project, instead of requiring the user to specify -DVCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET

This isn't current possible as:

• CMake doesn't make the architecture available until after project()
• When using the vcpkg toolchain file, the triplet must be set before project()

[FrankXie05]

You can set whether to enable the static option in the project properties of msbuild, and you can manually enter to select the existing installation triples.

[fredemmott]

@FrankXie05 this post is about cmake, not msbuild, and it is a vcpkg feature request, not a general usage question - i used vcpkg’s msbuild support as an example. your response is answering a different question to what I asked.