Re: [Quantlib-users] Updated vcpkg to v1.24

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

Thanks, Jonathan.  There was some discussion of providing a FindQuantLib,
but nobody opened an issue yet—feel free to do so.

Luigi


On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 2:22 PM Jonathan Sweemer <sw...@gm...> wrote:

> Sure, I've pushed up an example[1] for how to include QuantLib into a
> project using vcpkg on both Linux and Windows, including the part about the
> custom triplet on Linux. If you know of a better place to put the example
> then I will be happy to move it there instead.
>
> Apart from that, Microsoft's documentation[2] is not that bad, albeit a
> bit fragmented over several different sites in my experience.
>
> One thing that would make the integration with vcpkg even better is if
> QuantLib supported the find_package command[3]. Has there been any
> discussion of this in the past? If not, then that might be a good idea for
> someone to help contribute in the near future.
>
> [1] https://github.com/sweemer/quantlib-vcpkg-example
> [2] https://vcpkg.io/en/docs/examples/installing-and-using-packages.html
> [3] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/git-master/command/find_package.html
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 1:04 AM Luigi Ballabio <lui...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Jonathan!  Do you have a primer on how to use this for someone
>> who never used vcpkg?
>>
>> Luigi
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 8:05 AM Jonathan Sweemer <sw...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello QuantLib users,
>>>
>>> In case there are any other vcpkg users out there, heads up that I have
>>> submitted a pull request[1] to update QuantLib from v1.22 to v1.24.
>>>
>>> I have also enabled the option to build QuantLib as a shared library on
>>> Linux through vcpkg, which has been disabled until now for some reason. In
>>> case the lack of shared library support on Linux has prevented anyone from
>>> using vcpkg, you might want to try again once this change is merged. (Note
>>> that in order to build as a shared library on Linux with vcpkg you need to
>>> define a new triplet by following the instructions in [2]).
>>>
>>> On Windows, still only static linkage is supported, both in vcpkg and in
>>> QuantLib's CMake build settings.
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/21068
>>> [2]
>>> https://vcpkg.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/overlay-triplets-linux-dynamic/
>>>
>>> Jonathan Sweemer
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