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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-68816

Use Vcpkg to provide third-party libs for Qt builds

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      Investigate whether we can use vcpkg to provide libraries across platforms for use in Qt.

      Qt depends on some third-party libraries for functionality. For a lot of them, we offer the possibility to a) either link to an existing library in the system, or b) link in a copy of the library code from Qt sources if the system library is not available.

      Bundling his puts a lot of burden on Qt to maintain this code, and raises concerns about keeping the libraries up to date. Another option would be to rely on a cross-platform package manager to ship libraries for use of Qt.

      Vcpkg aims to be a cross-platform C++ library manager. Can we use it to install and update libraries for consumption in Qt ?

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          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-69655 Make LLVM/clang detection compatible with vcpkg

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
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          relates to

          Suggestion - Public suggestions QTBUG-45590 QMake support for NuGet dependencies

          • P4: Low - Would be nice to fix, but it's not very important.
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          User Story - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a user story. QTBUG-73760 Move third-party components to dedicated package manager

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
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          Task - A task that needs to be done. QBS-1041 Support VCPkg

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          Task - A task that needs to be done. QTBUG-115715 Use vcpkg for 3rdparty libs in CI

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
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