Author: lyalyakin
Date: Tue Sep 8 22:21:21 2026
New Revision: 1938024
Log:
Improve the vcpkg tip in the CMake section of INSTALL.
* INSTALL
(II.B): Grammar and typo fixes in the vcpkg tip. Minimal style
improvements.
Modified:
subversion/trunk/INSTALL
Modified: subversion/trunk/INSTALL
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--- subversion/trunk/INSTALL Tue Sep 8 22:17:28 2026 (r1938023)
+++ subversion/trunk/INSTALL Tue Sep 8 22:21:21 2026 (r1938024)
@@ -309,23 +309,22 @@ II. INSTALLATION
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmake-projects-in-visual-studio
- - There is a useful tool for bootstrapping the dependencies,
- vcpkg. It provides ports for the most of the Subversion's
- dependencies, which then could be installed via a single
- command.
+ - vcpkg is a useful tool for bootstrapping the dependencies. It provides
+ ports for most of Subversion's dependencies, which can then be
+ installed with a single command.
- To start using it, download the registry from GitHub, bootstrap
+ To start using it, clone the vcpkg repository from GitHub, bootstrap
vcpkg, and install the dependencies:
$ git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
$ cd vcpkg && .\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat -disableMetrics
$ .\vcpkg install apr apr-util expat zlib sqlite3 serf [any other
dependency]
- After this is done, vcpkg can be integrated into CMake by passing
- the vcpkg toolchain to CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE option. In order to do
- it with Visual Studio, open the CMake cache editor as explained in
- the previous step, and put the following into `CMake toolchain
- file` field, where VCPKG_ROOT is the path to vcpkg registry:
+ After this is done, vcpkg can be integrated into CMake by setting the
+ CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE variable to the path of the vcpkg file. To do
+ this in Visual Studio, open the CMake Settings Editor as explained in
+ the previous step, and put the following into the 'CMake toolchain
+ file' field, where VCPKG_ROOT is the path to your vcpkg clone:
<VCPKG_ROOT>/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake
