Using distribution option with Visual Studio 2022

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Building MeshLib with Visual Studio 2022 has clear instructions and I could build it successfully on Windows.
To use MeshLib in another Visual Studio project I found the distribution option to be more convenient as all headers and libraries are at one place.
Although the documentation says -
Common for both options: install thirdparty

But indeed there is no install.bat in the distribution folder similar to the one we get in the source repository under
thirdparty/install.bat

The common.props is supposed to be used with distribution option as well, and it does refer to vcpkg folder and third-party libraries. Is anything missed in windows distribution that links the distribution install directory to third-party?

[Grantim]

Hello!

Currently we do not copy all headers and libs from vcpkg to distribution folder (#2540 in this PR we are going to add this), so one still need to install vcpkg even using distribution

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Thank you for your reply.

But indeed there is no install.bat in the distribution folder similar to the one we get in the source repository under
thirdparty/install.bat

Is anything missed in windows distribution?

[Grantim]

But indeed there is no install.bat in the distribution folder similar to the one we get in the source repository under
thirdparty/install.bat
Is anything missed in windows distribution?

Yes, distribution archive missed vcpkg dependencies.

We have just released new version with #2540 merged, so https://github.com/MeshInspector/MeshLib/releases/tag/v2.4.1.203 new distribution file should contain all dependencies!

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Thanks a lot for quick action and reply.

[Fedr]

If you download Windows distribution zip-archive of MeshLib, then neither common.props nor install.bat is necessary, please just follow the instructions from here.