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Windows Install Documentation Unclear

Open lilybw opened this issue 2 months ago • 0 comments

Describe the bug The documentation makes a couple of assumptions under "Install by VCPKG in Windows", namely the installation location of vcpkg. When the walkthrough is followed step by step like I did, you end up cloning vcpkg to the parent directory of the cloned drogon source code. Not "C:\dev" as the documentation assumes.

Also for my project I can't assume to make system-wide changes, as it is to be used by other people, nor can I assume what drives they got or what they're called so Ive had to alter the installation process a little here and there. Like using a relative path for the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to make sure that everything is contained within the project folder.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Follow the documentation from the perspective of a Windows user.

Expected behavior No exact expectations. Its just a matter of clarification. I found myself searching through my C drive for quite a while, since I assumed that the installation of vcpkg had made said "C:\dev" folder.

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  • OS: Windows 11
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lilybw avatar Nov 03 '25 17:11 lilybw