Use action to install

Author: tschoonj

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -12,15 +12,21 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   visual-studio:
-    timeout-minutes: 60
+    timeout-minutes: 180
     runs-on: windows-latest
     name: Visual Studio 
     steps:
+      # - uses: lukka/get-cmake@latest
+      - name: Install vcpkg deps
+        uses: lukka/run-vcpkg@v11
+        with:
+          vcpkgGitCommitId: "8eb57355a4ffb410a2e94c07b4dca2dffbee8e50" # "2023.10.19"
+          runVcpkgInstall: true
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
-      - name: Install vcpkg dependencies
-        run: |
-          vcpkg install --triplet x64-windows gtkmm plplot pkgconf
+      # - name: Install vcpkg dependencies
+      #   run: |
+      #     vcpkg install --triplet x64-windows gtkmm plplot pkgconf
       - name: Build with meson
         run: |
           # set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to allow pkgconf to find the pkg-config files

vcpkg.json

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/vcpkg-tool/main/docs/vcpkg.schema.json",
+    "dependencies": [
+      "boost-multi-array",
+      "plplot",
+      "gtkmm"
+    ]
+  }