Natvis not picked up on vcpkg

[enginelesscc]

The current cmake script seems to be failing to pass the natvis to VS when consumed by vcpkg.
I've had to manually copy the natvis file to my source directory to get it loaded.

I'm guessing this is due to unordered being an interface in cmake while also marking the natvis file private, so there is neither a lib to consume, nor a config to pass down to consuming projects.

Unfortunately, without that natvis file, unordered_* is not a pleasant experience while debugging :/

(Version: 1.87.0, did not work on 1.86.0 either)

[pdimov]

Do you link to Boost::unordered in your CMakeLists.txt?

[enginelesscc]

Yes, Boost::unordered

[enginelesscc]

The natvis does not work with either VS' native vcpkg integration nor cmake+vcpkg manifest

[cmazakas]

We're looking into this. Thanks for the report!

[cmazakas]

@enginelesscc

Alright, did some investigation and I have some test ports, if you want to try them. Unfortunately, we're probably not going to be get these changes into the upcoming Boost release but if you could help us test, that'd be fantastic.

I'm one of the core maintainers for this repo. I have a fork here with some overlay ports you can experiment with: https://github.com/cmazakas/unordered/tree/vcpkg-test/ports

All you need to do is update your vcpkg-configuration.json to point to the overlay-ports or if you're using classic mode vcpkg, there's always the --overlay-ports command line argument.

These updated ports should work. They worked for me in VS Code locally. Let me know if you try them out or need any help setting up the overlay ports. You'll need filesystem-local copies of these ports as my forked repository is not setup to act as a registry.

[enginelesscc]

Thanks for the fast investigation!
Your changes are working properly :)

@cmazakas