Error: unable to get baseline for port xxx

[Badajoz95]

Hi, after a few days trying to understand how to implement a simple local example I am stuck on the message "Error: unable to get baseline for port xxx", and I was hoping for some information on how to debug what I need to do please.

I have a set of internal enterprise libraries that I am trying to migrate to vcpkg. I need to support local debugging and hosting in either Azure DevOps GIT Repo or Artifact.

One implementation case is a client project which uses corelibrary.

client

vcpkg.json
{ "name": "client", "version": "1.0.0", "description": "client", "homepage": "https://dev.azure.com/...", "dependencies": [ { "name": "corelibrary", "version>=": "2.0.0" } ] }

vcpkg-configuration.json
{ "default-registry": { "kind": "filesystem", "path": "..\\C++\\Source", "baseline": "2022-01-27" } }

I'm thinking using filesystem would satisfy the requirement to support local debugging, and once I understand that it should be easy to move to Azure DevOps GIT Repo or Artifact.

I've read up, nae groomed the documentation at extreme lengths regarding Registries, Versions, etc. I believe I've followed the advice and mirrored the example

corelibrary

baseline.json

{ "2022-01-27": { "initial": { "baseline": "2.0.0", "port-version": 0 } } }

which finds \versions\c-\corelibrary..json

{ "versions": [ { "version": "2.0.0", "path": "$/ports/corelibrary/2.0.0" } ] }

which points to \ports\corelibrary\2.0.0\vcpkg.json

{ "name": "corelibrary", "version": "2.0.0", "description": "CoreLibrary", "homepage": "https://dev.azure.com/...." }

Unfortunately, when I run vcpkg install against the client all I get is "Error: unable to get baseline for port corelibrary". If I hack the above configuration files, I can trace that vcpkg is hitting \ports\corelibrary\2.0.0\vcpkg.json but then I am at a loss to understand what next, why the error or how to get more information. There is nothing in buildtrees and I can't see a verbose flag.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated please.

[MarcelNehring]

@Badajoz95, how do you tell vcpkg where to find your registry?

I had the same error when I forgot to update the baseline commit hash of my custom registry in my vcpkg-configuration.json. So vcpkg could not find the new lib I added in a later version of the registry.