Port for vcpkg about manifold HOT 7 OPEN

Thank you! Yes, availability in more packaging systems would be great, especially if it can be automated in our CI. We're currently working toward a v3.0 release where we are planning to significantly reduce our dependencies (e.g. removing Thrust), so it might be easier to package once that's ready. We would certainly appreciate the help since none of us are Windows users and don't have much familiarity with vcpkg.

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It should be much simpler to port this to vcpkg now (after #857 and maybe #810). I think we only need tbb and glm, clipper2 and quickhull are optional.

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We would certainly appreciate the help since none of us are Windows users and don't have much familiarity with vcpkg.

Just wanted to mention that vcpkg is multiplatform, not tied to Windows. It is available on Windows, Mac, Linux, QNX, etc.

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I think we only need tbb and glm, clipper2 and quickhull are optional.

I think you might be mistaken, clipper2 and glm are mandatory dependencies (if find_package() cannot find them, FetchContent is used to add them), and so is quickhull (the submodule is add_subdirectory()'d unconditionally). TBB and nanobind are optional (the project does not need them with the default options).

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quickhull is on the verge of being removed entirely - that might even land this week. clipper2 is optional as you can choose to build Manifold and not CrossSection, but I'd guess we'd rather have both for vcpkg. And yes, it's great that vcpkg is cross-platform, though I think it may have a bit more adoption on Windows...

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Don't think there is currently the choice with cmake to build Manifold without CrossSection?:

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True, I don't think we've added that as an option in our CMake script itself yet - probably not a bad idea. Any interest?

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