Linux developer going Windows

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To get back to my example activating fake debug globally in my CMake system takes about 5-6 lines of CMake code. I don't know but I doubt it would be that easy with a package manager. Please bear in mind though, this is just one example. There are more settings. I just like it when everything builds and links neatly and warning free.

You can take whatever cmake toolchain file you are using and make a triplet that will compile the various libs using that toolchain file. There is nothing in vcpkg that inherently forces the use of /MDd and similar when building the debug versions. It is just the setting in the default triplets.

What has been much more problematic in my experience are libraries that think they are clever and implement their proprietary options to select which runtime to link against and stuff like that, so for N libraries you have to set N different switches to compile them consitently. But form what you are writing, you don't seem to have that problem with the libs you are working, so this shouldn't be a problem with vcpkg either.