Errors when building a project

[Gavin-Williams]

I'm trying to build a third party library. When I open the CMake panel and Run-in-Terminal I get a couple of errors. I have no idea why I would get errors or what to do about it. I just want to turn some C++ source code into a library so that I can use it. Why people think that we want to build their software is beyond me. Just provide builds for the major operating systems. It's an efficiency issue as well.

Any advice to overcome these errors is appreciated.

[{
"resource": "/C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.26/Modules/ExternalProject.cmake",
"owner": "cmake-configure-diags",
"severity": 8,
"message": "CMake Error at C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.26/Modules/ExternalProject.cmake:2806 (message):error: could not find git for clone of deflate-populate",
"source": "CMake (message)",
"startLineNumber": 2806,
"startColumn": 1,
"endLineNumber": 2806,
"endColumn": 10000,
"relatedInformation": [
{
"startLineNumber": 4208,
"startColumn": 1,
"endLineNumber": 4208,
"endColumn": 1000,
"message": "In call to '_ep_add_download_command' here",
"resource": "/C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.26/Modules/ExternalProject.cmake"
},
{
"startLineNumber": 23,
"startColumn": 1,
"endLineNumber": 23,
"endColumn": 1000,
"message": "In call to 'ExternalProject_Add' here",
"resource": "/D:/Libraries/openexr-main/CMakeLists.txt"
}
]
}]

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[{
"resource": "/C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.26/Modules/FetchContent.cmake",
"owner": "cmake-configure-diags",
"severity": 8,
"message": "CMake Error at C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.26/Modules/FetchContent.cmake:1610 (message):CMake step for deflate failed: 1",
"source": "CMake (message)",
"startLineNumber": 1610,
"startColumn": 1,
"endLineNumber": 1610,
"endColumn": 10000,
"relatedInformation": [
{
"startLineNumber": 2,
"startColumn": 1,
"endLineNumber": 2,
"endColumn": 1000,
"message": "In call to '__FetchContent_directPopulate' here",
"resource": "/C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.26/Modules/FetchContent.cmake:1762:EVAL"
},
{
"startLineNumber": 1762,
"startColumn": 1,
"endLineNumber": 1762,
"endColumn": 1000,
"message": "In call to 'cmake_language' here",
"resource": "/C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.26/Modules/FetchContent.cmake"
},
{
"startLineNumber": 187,
"startColumn": 1,
"endLineNumber": 187,
"endColumn": 1000,
"message": "In call to 'FetchContent_Populate' here",
"resource": "/D:/Libraries/openexr-main/cmake/OpenEXRSetup.cmake"
},
{
"startLineNumber": 67,
"startColumn": 1,
"endLineNumber": 67,
"endColumn": 1000,
"message": "In call to 'include' here",
"resource": "/D:/Libraries/openexr-main/CMakeLists.txt"
}
]
}]

[Gavin-Williams]

I couldn't get cmake to work. But I did get vcpkg to do the work for me.