What work is left before this is ready to merge? I'd like to help get this merged.

IIRC now there are several related ports which share the same pattern of carrying a set of common private libs. This is a problem for the static triplets. Packaging them all separately is a lot of work.

IIRC now there are several related ports which share the same pattern of carrying a set of common private libs. This is a problem for the static triplets. Packaging them all separately is a lot of work.

I've tried to map out what private libraries need to be packaged taking account for recursive dependencies and I've come up with 18 of those libraries. (To support all currently existing libyal ports)

• 1. libbfio
• 2. libcdata
• 3. libcerror
• 4. libcfile
• 5. libclocale
• 6. libcnotify
• 7. libcpath
• 8. libcsplit
• 9. libcthreads
• 10. libfcache
• 11. libfdata
• 12. libuna
• 13. libfguid
• 14. libcaes
• 15. libfdatetime
• 16. libfmapi
• 17. libfvalue
• 18. libfwnt

This PR has gotten quite large already, I think I'll create a new branch and cherry-pick the vcpkg-libyal-vstools and add a new port of a simple libyal library with no private dependencies like libcerror.
From there adding these new ports should be simple and then finally convert the existing non-official build system ports to use vcpkg-libyal-vstools.

The PR is large due to msbuild patching. It might make sense to rewrite the msbuild files with another mechanism.

The PR is large due to msbuild patching. It might make sense to rewrite the msbuild files with another mechanism.

Can I ask why you disabled building with static CRT?

Can I ask why you disabled building with static CRT?

IIRC the MSVC build only allows a DLL. This doesn't combine well with a static CRT.
And then the canonical pattern is vcpkg_check_linkage(ONLY_DYNAMIC_LIBRARY) in portfile.cmake in combination with skip in ci.baseline so that user may still use per-port customization in triplet files to force a DLL with static CRT if they know what they are doing.

Is there any new progress?

Keep open.