The latest version of this document lives in the vcpkg repo.
Build a cmake project.
vcpkg_cmake_build(
[TARGET <target>]
[LOGFILE_BASE <base>]
[DISABLE_PARALLEL]
[ADD_BIN_TO_PATH]
)vcpkg_cmake_build builds an already-configured cmake project.
You can use the alias vcpkg_cmake_install() function
if your CMake build system supports the install TARGET,
and this is something we recommend doing whenever possible.
Otherwise, you can use TARGET to set the target to build.
This function defaults to not passing a target to cmake.
LOGFILE_BASE is used to set the base of the logfile names;
by default, this is build, and thus the logfiles end up being something like
build-x86-windows-dbg.log; if you use vcpkg_cmake_install,
this is set to install, so you'll get log names like install-x86-windows-dbg.log.
For build systems that are buggy when run in parallel,
using DISABLE_PARALLEL will run the build with only one job.
Finally, ADD_BIN_TO_PATH adds the appropriate (either release or debug)
bin/ directories to the path during the build,
such that executables run during the build will be able to access those DLLs.