Error when try to update vcpkg in manifest mode

[Jalg92]

Hi I'm trying to update and upgrade the libraries in vcpkg and when I update de baseline in mi vcpkg-configuration.json I get an error when try to find repositories.

The steps I follow has been:

1. vcpkg x-update-baseline
2. vcpkg install

and here I get this message

vcpkg install
warning: In the September 2023 release, the default triplet for vcpkg libraries changed from x86-windows to the detected host triplet (x64-windows). For the old behavior, add --triplet x86-windows . To suppress this message, add --triplet x64-windows .
Fetching registry information from https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg (HEAD)...
Detecting compiler hash for triplet x64-windows...
The following packages will be built and installed:

• brotli:x64-windows@1.2.0 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\0fb79bb13588702a9e06057745b4aed95ce5c861
• bzip2[core,tool]:x64-windows@1.0.8#6 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\2d029da682847c5ebdc54e4dbea001331a02207e
  curl[core,non-http,ssl,sspi]:x64-windows@8.17.0 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\e5ec3165c979aad7e25d907ffb82e7b6ad0f8f92
  dcmtk[core,iconv,openssl]:x64-windows@3.6.9#2 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\0ff9c4eff525cb8cf1d04bf9952dc9446c3eef3a
• egl-registry:x64-windows@2025-05-27 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\980ed62fded868a1cb66460b32704aca030af013
• expat:x64-windows@2.7.3 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\1f334673a6e31a6887fa5377a330e436b4f1f6a7
  freetype[brotli,bzip2,core,png,zlib]:x64-windows@2.13.3 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\8a2c633dcc14eaabdb31cf4637242f4e3c2f3fa2
  ftgl:x64-windows@2.4.0#7 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\f843533b76f9fcf6de408ba47855ceb3b0ce3415
  gdcm:x64-windows@3.0.24 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\a261e8eb0faf299319bdb0ecfc4ebf76a449bc19
• libiconv:x64-windows@1.18#3 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\cd6e884bcb53ce8481ea9594639f3d21aed0e138
• libpng:x64-windows@1.6.53 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\6bf3aa4213d63a42bdcf18f229df7e703f80c5aa
• opengl:x64-windows@2022-12-04#3 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\c3ae71738f88449ebcd781cef60d9a253fa091d4
• opengl-registry:x64-windows@2025-10-23 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\b6fc96510e68698d19afeb423ace590134969ad6
• openjpeg:x64-windows@2.5.4 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\e95aa6d786ed44b493017c574ac8e1b84ac65ffd
• openssl:x64-windows@3.6.0#3 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\21c1dabbf149eaa75b6c8b6ba9c3c6edb4f47ea7
• pcre2[core,jit,platform-default-features]:x64-windows@10.47 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\753cc6dbffbcde00b0c10b8d594108beb320a183
• pkgconf:x64-windows@2.5.1#4 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\0e3bcce12697924fae59f8567477d1a4cc2de04f
  poco[core,crypto,json,net,netssl,util,xml]:x64-windows@1.14.1#2 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\1b7c8e1c9662ffc308a12a2382fdbd3ac105801c
  sentry-native[backend,core,transport,wer]:x64-windows@0.12.2 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\c192a5c23ae25ce741babf00033762cb75add730
• utf8proc:x64-windows@2.11.2 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\35807db3f400becadade26e3a088236741d18483
• vcpkg-cmake:x64-windows@2024-04-23 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\e74aa1e8f93278a8e71372f1fa08c3df420eb840
• vcpkg-cmake-config:x64-windows@2024-05-23 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\97a63e4bc1a17422ffe4eff71da53b4b561a7841
• vcpkg-cmake-get-vars:x64-windows@2025-05-29 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\d6510f888dd526c7828f6b973349e7f30be51254
• vcpkg-tool-meson:x64-windows@1.9.0#3 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\165684a9f99a44f025f61276320bbd412026400a
• zlib:x64-windows@1.3.1 -- C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\3f05e04b9aededb96786a911a16193cdb711f0c9
  Additional packages (*) will be modified to complete this operation.
  Restored 0 package(s) from C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\archives in 2.59 ms. Use --debug to see more details.
  Installing 1/25 vcpkg-cmake:x64-windows@2024-04-23...
  Building vcpkg-cmake:x64-windows@2024-04-23...
  -- Installing port from location: C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\e74aa1e8f93278a8e71372f1fa08c3df420eb840
  -- Installing: C:/Dev/Workstation/vcpkg_installed/vcpkg/pkgs/vcpkg-cmake_x64-windows/share/vcpkg-cmake/vcpkg_cmake_configure.cmake
  -- Installing: C:/Dev/Workstation/vcpkg_installed/vcpkg/pkgs/vcpkg-cmake_x64-windows/share/vcpkg-cmake/vcpkg_cmake_build.cmake
  -- Installing: C:/Dev/Workstation/vcpkg_installed/vcpkg/pkgs/vcpkg-cmake_x64-windows/share/vcpkg-cmake/vcpkg_cmake_install.cmake
  -- Installing: C:/Dev/Workstation/vcpkg_installed/vcpkg/pkgs/vcpkg-cmake_x64-windows/share/vcpkg-cmake/vcpkg-port-config.cmake
  -- Installing: C:/Dev/Workstation/vcpkg_installed/vcpkg/pkgs/vcpkg-cmake_x64-windows/share/vcpkg-cmake/copyright
  -- Performing post-build validation
  Stored binaries in 1 destinations in 277 ms.
  Elapsed time to handle vcpkg-cmake:x64-windows: 684 ms
  vcpkg-cmake:x64-windows package ABI: 1b1948d209dbc1d109b4a2f45d6819bd3265eb61e9ce9680de0fdc81a33122da
  Installing 2/25 zlib:x64-windows@1.3.1...
  Building zlib:x64-windows@1.3.1...
  -- Installing port from location: C:\Users\Jose.larrubia\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\3f05e04b9aededb96786a911a16193cdb711f0c9
  -- Using cached madler-zlib-v1.3.1.tar.gz.
  -- Extracting source C:/Users/Jose.larrubia/AppData/Local/vcpkg/downloads/madler-zlib-v1.3.1.tar.gz
  -- Applying patch 0001-Prevent-invalid-inclusions-when-HAVE_-is-set-to-0.patch
  -- Applying patch 0002-build-static-or-shared-not-both.patch
  -- Applying patch 0003-android-and-mingw-fixes.patch
  -- Using source at C:/Dev/Workstation/vcpkg_installed/vcpkg/blds/zlib/src/v1.3.1-2e5db616bf.clean
  -- Found external ninja('1.11.0').
  -- Configuring x64-windows
  -- Building x64-windows-dbg
  -- Building x64-windows-rel
  -- Installing: C:/Dev/Workstation/vcpkg_installed/vcpkg/pkgs/zlib_x64-windows/share/zlib/vcpkg-cmake-wrapper.cmake
  -- Fixing pkgconfig file: C:/Dev/Workstation/vcpkg_installed/vcpkg/pkgs/zlib_x64-windows/lib/pkgconfig/zlib.pc
  -- Downloading https://mirror.msys2.org/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst;https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst;https://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/msys2/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst;https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/msys2/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst;https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/msys2/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst;https://mirror.selfnet.de/msys2/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst -> mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst...
  [DEBUG] To include the environment variables in debug output, pass --debug-env
  [DEBUG] Trying to load bundleconfig from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\VC\vcpkg\vcpkg-bundle.json
  [DEBUG] Bundle config: readonly=true, usegitregistry=true, embeddedsha=000d1bda1ffa95a73e0b40334fa4103d6f4d3d48, deployment=VisualStudio, vsversion=17.0
  [DEBUG] VS telemetry opted in at SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VSCommon\17.0\SQM\OptIn
  [DEBUG] Metrics enabled.
  [DEBUG] Feature flag 'binarycaching' unset
  [DEBUG] Feature flag 'compilertracking' unset
  [DEBUG] Feature flag 'registries' unset
  [DEBUG] Feature flag 'versions' unset
  [DEBUG] Feature flag 'dependencygraph' unset
  Downloading https://mirror.msys2.org/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
  Downloading https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
  Downloading https://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/msys2/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
  Downloading https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/msys2/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
  Downloading https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/msys2/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
  Downloading https://mirror.selfnet.de/msys2/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
  error: Failed to download from mirror set
  error: https://mirror.msys2.org/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst: failed: status code 404
  error: https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst: failed: status code 404
  error: https://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/msys2/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst: failed: status code 404
  error: https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/msys2/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst: failed: status code 404
  error: https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/msys2/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst: failed: status code 404
  error: https://mirror.selfnet.de/msys2/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst: failed: status code 404
  [DEBUG] D:\a_work\1\s\src\vcpkg\base\downloads.cpp(1048):
  [DEBUG] Time in subprocesses: 0us
  [DEBUG] Time in parsing JSON: 29us
  [DEBUG] Time in JSON reader: 0us
  [DEBUG] Time in filesystem: 16494us
  [DEBUG] Time in loading ports: 0us
  [DEBUG] Exiting after 5.7 s (5689300us)

CMake Error at scripts/cmake/vcpkg_download_distfile.cmake:32 (message):

  Failed to download file with error: 1
  If you are using a proxy, please check your proxy setting. Possible causes are:

  1. You are actually using an HTTP proxy, but setting HTTPS_PROXY variable
     to `https://address:port`. This is not correct, because `https://` prefix
     claims the proxy is an HTTPS proxy, while your proxy (v2ray, shadowsocksr
     , etc..) is an HTTP proxy. Try setting `http://address:port` to both
     HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY instead.

  2. If you are using Windows, vcpkg will automatically use your Windows IE Proxy Settings
     set by your proxy software. See https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg-tool/pull/77
     The value set by your proxy might be wrong, or have same `https://` prefix issue.

  3. Your proxy's remote server is out of service.

  If you've tried directly download the link, and believe this is not a temporary
  download server failure, please submit an issue at https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/issues
  to report this upstream download server failure.

Call Stack (most recent call first):
scripts/cmake/vcpkg_download_distfile.cmake:270 (z_vcpkg_download_distfile_show_proxy_and_fail)
scripts/cmake/vcpkg_acquire_msys.cmake:25 (vcpkg_download_distfile)
scripts/cmake/vcpkg_acquire_msys.cmake:124 (z_vcpkg_acquire_msys_download_package)
scripts/cmake/vcpkg_acquire_msys.cmake:209 (z_vcpkg_acquire_msys_download_packages)
scripts/cmake/vcpkg_find_acquire_program(PKGCONFIG).cmake:35 (vcpkg_acquire_msys)
scripts/cmake/vcpkg_find_acquire_program.cmake:117 (include)
scripts/cmake/vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig.cmake:203 (vcpkg_find_acquire_program)
C:/Users/Jose.larrubia/AppData/Local/vcpkg/registries/git-trees/3f05e04b9aededb96786a911a16193cdb711f0c9/portfile.cmake:43 (vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig)
scripts/ports.cmake:170 (include)

error: building zlib:x64-windows failed with: BUILD_FAILED
Elapsed time to handle zlib:x64-windows: 22 s
Please ensure you're using the latest port files with git pull and vcpkg update.
Then check for known issues at:
https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+in%3Atitle+zlib
You can submit a new issue at:
https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/new?title=[zlib]+Build+error+on+x64-windows&body=Copy+issue+body+from+C%3A%2FDev%2FWorkstation%2Fvcpkg_installed%2Fvcpkg%2Fissue_body.md

Is a error of the version or I'm doing wrong?

[Osyotr (Osyotr)]

Do you use vcpkg from Visual Studio? It may be too old.

[Kai Pastor (dg0yt)]

Building some ports relies on the environment provided by MSYS2. It is a rolling distribution of tools from the POSIX world. Binary packages are removed app. 18 months after an MSYS2 update ATM. Either update vcpkg, or keep your own cache/copies of the packages.

[Jalg92]

But If I try to update vcpkg adding to the vcpkg_configuration a new commit from vcpkg github didn't have to be updated the new packages?
After I removed my packages now I can't install anything and the problem is I didn't have copies of the packages. And If I try to go back to the previous commit of vcpkg I had the same problem. What can I do?

[Kai Pastor (dg0yt)]

AFAICT there is

• unversioned scripts (e.g. providing msys2): using the current revision of your vcpkg directory. (New revision must not break building old ports!)
• baseline: the default (minimum) version for ports
• version>=: selecting newer versions of ports
• override: choosing arbitrary versions of ports
• overlay ports: completely overriding version selection

Updating the baseline (second point) won't provide updated scripts IIUC. You must update the git checkout.

With significant updates to the scripts (first point), you will probably see a rebuild of packages even for unchanged versions because ABI hashes are invalidated.

Managing asset caching / backup of downloads is probably essential for building the same configuration over extended periods of time.

[Jalg92]

So or we update all the libraries at the last version or we are the responsable to get a back up of the libraries.
Normally update some libraries is a complex task so we try to no do it all of them at same time. Well we know how to work whith vcpkg now.
Thank you so much.

[Kai Pastor (dg0yt)]

I tried to elaborate that there is the difference between the unversioned scripts ("acquire msys") and versioned ports ("libraries").

i.e. it is not "update all the libraries at the last version or we are the responsable to get a back up of the libraries."

But I believe that every user has a responsibility to implement proper asset caching, for fair use of upstream resources and for long-term stability.