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# run this script with sudo
# From <https://askubuntu.com/questions/355565/how-do-i-install-the-latest-version-of-cmake-from-the-command-line>
apt remove --purge --auto-remove cmake
apt update
apt install -y software-properties-common lsb-release && \
apt clean all
wget -O - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc 2>/dev/null | gpg --dearmor - | tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/kitware.gpg >/dev/null
apt-add-repository "deb https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ $(lsb_release -cs) main"
apt update
apt install kitware-archive-keyring

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{
  "version": 6,
  "cmakeMinimumRequired": {
    "major": 3,
    "minor": 23,
    "patch": 0
  },
  "configurePresets": [
    {
      "name": "sibling-build-preset",

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Disassemble an Object File with MSVC Linker

There are undocumented switches to the linker that will disassemble an object file:

link /dump /disasm /linenumbers /out:foo.asm foo.obj

Cribbed from an answer on this stackoverflow question

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Simple vcpkg Overlay Ports Setup

The file vcpkg-configuration.json uses an existing vcpkg as the default registry; this assumes vcpkg as a git submodule. The baseline value is the commit hash of the vcpkg submodule. Update the hash as needed to reflect the actual version of the vcpkg registry you've got checked out as a submodule.

Overlay Ports

Use a directory vcpkg-overlays to contain the overlay ports;

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Using NuGet Package Caching with VcPkg and GitHub Actions

The GitHub Actions Cache mechanism has been removed from vcpkg, so you can't use x-gha in VCPKG_BINARY_SOURCES as a way to re-use built products from one build to the next anymore. I was using x-gha because the setup was trivial for all platforms: just set a couple environment variables.

You can use NuGet packages to achieve the same purpose, although the setup is a little more complicated. Here's what I learned while setting this up for the first time for use with GitHub Actions.

1. GitHub Classic Personal Access Token