[devil] build failure on mac os arm64 about vcpkg HOT 8 OPEN

@chicoferreira, Thanks for posting this issue, devil not provide find_package() usage, just provide pkg-config modules:

-- Fixing pkgconfig file: /Users/vcpkg/Jon/vcpkg/packages/devil_arm64-osx/lib/pkgconfig/IL.pc
-- Fixing pkgconfig file: /Users/vcpkg/Jon/vcpkg/packages/devil_arm64-osx/lib/pkgconfig/ILU.pc
-- Fixing pkgconfig file: /Users/vcpkg/Jon/vcpkg/packages/devil_arm64-osx/lib/pkgconfig/ILUT.pc
-- Fixing pkgconfig file: /Users/vcpkg/Jon/vcpkg/packages/devil_arm64-osx/debug/lib/pkgconfig/IL.pc
-- Fixing pkgconfig file: /Users/vcpkg/Jon/vcpkg/packages/devil_arm64-osx/debug/lib/pkgconfig/ILU.pc
-- Fixing pkgconfig file: /Users/vcpkg/Jon/vcpkg/packages/devil_arm64-osx/debug/lib/pkgconfig/ILUT.pc
-- Installing: /Users/vcpkg/Jon/vcpkg/packages/devil_arm64-osx/share/devil/copyright
-- Performing post-build validation
Elapsed time to handle devil:arm64-osx: 6.6 s
Total install time: 1.1 min
devil provides pkg-config modules:

    # Developer's Image Library - IL part (just image load/save)
    IL

    # Developer's Image Library - ILU part (image library utilities)
    ILU

    # Developer's Image Library - ILUT part (connection to higher level libraries)
    ILUT

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How can I then use it both on Windows, Linux and MacOS with the same vcpkg.json and CMakeLists.txt?
The compilation works on Windows without needing to link .dll's but fails on Linux and Mac OS.

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The default linux and osx triplets use static library linkage, the default windows triplet uses dynamic library linkage. I guess this explains the different observations.

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I was expecting that vcpkg would abstract that and just link the package correctly in any supported OS, which it doesn't, or at least tell me how to do it like other packages do.

@JonLiu1993 as this issue is no longer marked as a bug, could you please tell me how could I do #38559 (comment)? Thank you for the support.

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Option 1: use triplets with dynamic linkage (e.g. x64-linux-dynamic or arm64-osx-dynamic or x64-windows).
Option 2: instead of using find_package(DevIL REQUIRED) use pkg-config:

find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
pkg_check_modules(DevIL REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET DevIL)
target_link_libraries(my_target PRIVATE PkgConfig::DevIL)

(Note that it's still possible that pkg-config files installed by devil don't express transitive dependencies properly. You may also need to add pkgconf to your dependencies list on windows.)
Option 3: write vcpkg-cmake-wrapper.cmake for the port. Port tiff does something similar.

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Option 3: write vcpkg-cmake-wrapper.cmake for the port. Port tiff does something similar.

No wrapper please. Only CMake config.
Sorry, yes. Wrap the official cmake module.

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Thank you for the options given. Unfortunately they didn't fit my needs so I end up switch from devil to stb which gives me the same features I needed.

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Please re-open. This need a fix.

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