Appveyor build fails to generate libraries

[Illation]

For some reason vcpkg fails to install 7zip during the setup phase, and therefore cannot download gtkmm and its dependencies. https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Illation/etengine

That said even if that worked it might fail anyway, due to the time it takes to generate the library files during a first time build. Appveyor has a time limit of 1 hour, which may be exceeded by the time the 50 or so dependencies are built.

If it did work, it still isn't ideal, as nobody wants to wait that long to validate a source build and run unit tests.

The best solution would probably be to have a release with all the libraries prebuilt, which appveyor can simply download and then proceed straight towards the engine build instead.

[NeroBurner]

you could use a 'compile-farm' to prebuild libraries for windows/linux. openblack does this

• Link to openblack: https://github.com/openblack/openblack
• Link to openblack compile-farm: https://github.com/openblack/compile-farm

[NeroBurner]

For some reason vcpkg fails to install 7zip during the setup phase

you could update the reference of your vcpkg submodule to the latest release, maybe the old version was removed rendering the link stale

[profbudinga]

Is there any instructions on building the engine within windows with visual studio 2022 or even 2019 for that matter , as VCPKG is still failing.