Undocumented `build` command does not perform dependency resolution. about vcpkg HOT 6 CLOSED

Same issue with libwebsockets. This is strange but it won't download the dependencies.

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This is an issue with the (currently undocumented) build command. vcpkg install handles dependency resolution before delegating to the build command.

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Dependencies must be installed to get picked up during dependency resolution, and build does not install packages automatically, whereas install does

Currently the behavior is:
vcpkg install libpng will result in: zlib==installed and libpng==installed.
vcpkg build libpng will fail if zlib!=installed
vcpkg build libpng will result in zlib==installed (if it already was) and libpng==built-but-not-installed

This can also be achieved unconditionally via:
vcpkg install libpng
vcpkg remove libpng

Do you think it would be intuitive to have vcpkg build package-x install all dependencies of package-x and then build package-x without installing it?

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No, I definitely agree that this behavior seems to be the proper one.
But without any kind of error message, I was kinda surprised, my bad.

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However, you are right that the error message used to be unhelpful. Fixed after: 5b89712
Modified the command so that it doesn't start building if the dependencies are not already installed, as opposed to the previous behavior where it would fail during the build. It will now display something like this:

C:\path\to\vcpkg>vcpkg build opencv
The build command requires all dependencies to be already installed.
The following dependencies are missing:

    zlib
    libpng
    libjpeg-turbo

Thanks for reporting!

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0b59e6c changes the output to show the triplet along with the missing package name, i.e:

C:\path\to\vcpkg> vcpkg build opencv
The build command requires all dependencies to be already installed.
The following dependencies are missing:

    libjpeg-turbo:x86-windows

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