Embedded Software Development in Visual Studio

Thanks for the article.

Thought I'd share a couple of challenges, might help others.

I hit 2 issues, 1 self inflicted, and one environmental.

1. I forked the original getting-started repo, but when I cloned it, I missed out the --recursive flag - which really screws up the VS integration/ cmake etc.

2. The powershell script vcpkg-init.ps1 failed when trying to bootstrap vcpkg, with an error that included:

Installing vcpkg to C:\Users\robmaw\.vcpkg
tar (child): Cannot connect to C: resolve failed
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/usr/bin/tar: Child returned status 128
/usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

This was down to having a dodgy version of tar.exe in my path, before the one in C:\Windows\system32.

Running

tar.exe --version 

should show something like 

bsdtar 3.4.3 - libarchive 3.4.3 zlib/1.2.5.f-ipp bz2lib/1.0.6

If not check your path. (mine had a miniconda folder earlier in the path)

Once both of those were sorted (with a lot of help on #2) - it all worked  - really looking forward to seeing how this progresses.