musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Windows: Consider using VCPKG instead of pre-built binaries for dependencies
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Your idea
With the need for a Windows ARM64 build, zlib and libsndfile are also needed for ARM64.
Instead of using pre-built binaries that don't even come with reproducible build instruction VCPKG could be used instead.
Problem to be solved
Unable to build Windows ARM64 binaries due to x64 only provided pre-built binaries in https://github.com/musescore/musescore_prebuild_win_deps
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