setup on windows without visual studio

[RemiBraizet]

Hi,

I have msys2 / mingw64 on which there is gcc, GNU make and g++
I do not use visual studio
I try to cross compile using the same Makefile, either via WSL or powershell ( and have the possibility to either dynlink or staticlink )

it works using wsl, vcpkg is properly setup
but when i run the command for powershell:

.\dependencies\vcpkg_installation\vcpkg.exe install --x-manifest-root=dependencies/ --x-install-root=dependencies/ --triplet=x64-mingw-dynamic
error: in triplet x64-windows: Unable to find a valid Visual Studio instance
Could not locate a complete Visual Studio instance

• i've seen that you can install vcpkg directly in mingw64 but i'd like to avoid it since i already have it in my project folder
• Im not sure if i should be creating a custom triplet

did i miss a step ?

[dg0yt]

ATM you are building for mingw on a msvc host.
You want to change the host triplet to a mingw one.