Alexander Neumann

Invalid. Has been tried in the past. Can be closed since static CRT with dynamic library linkage is inherently unsafe (e.g. passing c++ types across dll boundaries) and won't be...

the correct approach is probably to drop yasm and simply switch to clang (#23660).

https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/23660 can be reduced to just use `vcpkg_find_acquire_program(CLANG)`

> This PR has focus only on arm64-windows I don't think that is a strong argument. It makes the build more consist on all windows archs if clang-cl is used...

> yasm is not used on arm-windows. also assembly optimization is disabled on arm-windows. so the dependency needs to be remove from the manifest for arm......

``` #### Being paranoid: if test x"$have_qt" = xyes; then AC_MSG_CHECKING(correct functioning of Qt installation) AC_CACHE_VAL(ax_cv_qt_test_result, [ cat > ax_qt_test.h ax_qt_main.$ac_ext

> Would it be possible for you to supply a minimal triplet where this change is required? Every port which uses `WINDOWS_USE_MSBUILD` requires the VS generator. If you have only...

I also need it for https://github.com/Neumann-A/my-vcpkg-triplets/blob/c6ad1a8b5153c6ae88c6c4b0a128c69b6c7beb81/x64-win-llvm.cmake#L15

> Rather than adding another triplet setting, could we fix the issue by determining the generator based on the VS version instead of the toolset? Switching on `ENV{VisualStudioVersion}` ? Requires...

@JackBoosY this PR doesnt depend on these port. These PRs are just necessary for a clean baseline. This PR can be merged without a clean baseline since the effects of...