chore: update CI workflows and vcpkg configuration

- Removed unused gRPC and protobuf dependencies from `vcpkg.json`.
- Updated CI configuration to enable vcpkg installation for SDL2 and yaml-cpp.
- Added support for MSVC in CI workflows and improved caching strategies for vcpkg packages.
- Enhanced logging in build steps to provide better feedback on dependency status and build progress.

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -58,10 +58,14 @@ jobs:
             os: macos-14
             cc: clang
             cxx: clang++
-          - name: "Windows 2022 (Clang)"
+          - name: "Windows 2022 (Clang-CL)"
             os: windows-2022
             cc: clang-cl
             cxx: clang-cl
+          - name: "Windows 2022 (MSVC)"
+            os: windows-2022
+            cc: cl
+            cxx: cl
 
     steps:
     - name: Checkout
@@ -80,7 +84,7 @@ jobs:
       with:
         vcpkgDirectory: '${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg'
         vcpkgGitCommitId: 'b2c74683ecfd6a8e7d27ffb0df077f66a9339509'  # 2025.01.20 release
-        runVcpkgInstall: false  # Let CMake handle installation via manifest mode
+        runVcpkgInstall: true  # Pre-install SDL2, yaml-cpp (fast packages only)
     
     - name: Retry vcpkg setup (Windows)
       if: runner.os == 'Windows' && steps.vcpkg.outcome == 'failure'
@@ -92,7 +96,7 @@ jobs:
       with:
         vcpkgDirectory: '${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg'
         vcpkgGitCommitId: 'b2c74683ecfd6a8e7d27ffb0df077f66a9339509'
-        runVcpkgInstall: false
+        runVcpkgInstall: true
     
     - name: Resolve vcpkg toolchain (Windows)
       if: runner.os == 'Windows'
@@ -185,23 +189,64 @@ jobs:
           Write-Host "✅ vcpkg-configuration.json found"
         }
 
-    - name: Restore ccache
+    - name: Setup sccache
+      uses: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action@v1.2
+      with:
+        key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.cc }}-${{ github.sha }}
+        restore-keys: |
+          ${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.cc }}-
+        max-size: 500M
+        variant: sccache
+
+    - name: Configure sccache for clang-cl
+      if: runner.os == 'Windows' && matrix.cc == 'clang-cl'
+      shell: pwsh
+      run: |
+        echo "CC=sccache clang-cl" >> $env:GITHUB_ENV
+        echo "CXX=sccache clang-cl" >> $env:GITHUB_ENV
+
+    - name: Restore vcpkg packages cache
       uses: actions/cache@v4
       with:
-        path: ~/.ccache
-        key: ccache-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.cc }}-${{ hashFiles('CMakeLists.txt', 'src/**', 'test/**', 'cmake/**') }}
+        path: |
+          build/vcpkg_installed
+          ${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg/packages
+          ${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg/buildtrees
+        key: vcpkg-${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('vcpkg.json') }}
         restore-keys: |
-          ccache-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.cc }}-
+          vcpkg-${{ runner.os }}-
 
-    - name: Restore CMake dependencies
+    - name: Restore FetchContent dependencies (gRPC)
       uses: actions/cache@v4
       with:
         path: |
           build/_deps
-          build/vcpkg_installed
-        key: cmake-deps-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.cc }}-${{ hashFiles('CMakeLists.txt', 'cmake/**', 'src/**/CMakeLists.txt', 'src/**/*.cmake', 'test/CMakeLists.txt') }}
+        key: fetchcontent-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.cc }}-${{ hashFiles('cmake/grpc*.cmake') }}-v2
         restore-keys: |
-          cmake-deps-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.cc }}-
+          fetchcontent-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.cc }}-
+
+    - name: Monitor build progress (Windows)
+      if: runner.os == 'Windows'
+      shell: pwsh
+      run: |
+        Write-Host "=== Pre-Build Status ===" -ForegroundColor Cyan
+        
+        # Check if gRPC is cached
+        if (Test-Path "build/_deps/grpc-subbuild") {
+          Write-Host "✅ gRPC FetchContent cache found" -ForegroundColor Green
+        } else {
+          Write-Host "⚠️  gRPC will be built from source (~10-15 min first time)" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+        }
+        
+        # Check vcpkg packages
+        if (Test-Path "build/vcpkg_installed") {
+          Write-Host "✅ vcpkg packages cache found" -ForegroundColor Green
+          if (Test-Path "${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg/vcpkg.exe") {
+            & "${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg/vcpkg.exe" list
+          }
+        } else {
+          Write-Host "⚠️  vcpkg packages will be installed (~2-3 min)" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+        }
 
     - name: Install Dependencies (Unix)
       id: deps

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           vcpkgDirectory: '${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg'
           vcpkgGitCommitId: 'b2c74683ecfd6a8e7d27ffb0df077f66a9339509'
-          runVcpkgInstall: false
+          runVcpkgInstall: true
         env:
           VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET: x64-windows-static
           VCPKG_BINARY_SOURCES: 'clear;x-gha,readwrite'
@@ -42,18 +42,67 @@ jobs:
           choco install --no-progress -y nasm
           "C:\Program Files\NASM" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_PATH -Append
 
-      - name: Setup MSVC
+      - name: Setup MSVC environment for clang-cl
         uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
         with:
           arch: x64
 
+      - name: Configure clang-cl
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: |
+          Write-Host "Setting up clang-cl compiler"
+          echo "CC=clang-cl" >> $env:GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "CXX=clang-cl" >> $env:GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Setup sccache
+        uses: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action@v1.2
+        with:
+          key: windows-x64-release-${{ github.run_id }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            windows-x64-release-
+          max-size: 500M
+          variant: sccache
+
+      - name: Restore vcpkg packages cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: |
+            build/vcpkg_installed
+            ${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg/packages
+          key: vcpkg-release-${{ hashFiles('vcpkg.json') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            vcpkg-release-
+
+      - name: Restore FetchContent dependencies
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: |
+            build/_deps
+          key: fetchcontent-release-${{ hashFiles('cmake/grpc*.cmake') }}-v2
+          restore-keys: |
+            fetchcontent-release-
+
+      - name: Configure sccache
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: |
+          echo "CC=sccache clang-cl" >> $env:GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "CXX=sccache clang-cl" >> $env:GITHUB_ENV
+
       - name: Configure
         id: configure
         shell: pwsh
         run: |
+          Write-Host "=== Build Configuration ===" -ForegroundColor Cyan
+          Write-Host "Compiler: clang-cl"
+          Write-Host "Build Type: Release"
+          cmake --version
+          clang-cl --version
+          
           $toolchain = "${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"
           cmake -S . -B build `
             -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release `
+            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang-cl `
+            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang-cl `
             -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$toolchain `
             -DVCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET=x64-windows-static `
             -DVCPKG_MANIFEST_MODE=ON `
@@ -88,6 +137,33 @@ jobs:
             Write-Host "::group::Build Log (last 100 lines)"
             Get-Content build.log -Tail 100
             Write-Host "::endgroup::"
+            
+            # Check for specific error patterns
+            if (Select-String -Path "build.log" -Pattern "vcpkg" -Quiet) {
+              Write-Host "`n::group::vcpkg-related errors" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+              Select-String -Path "build.log" -Pattern "vcpkg.*error" -CaseSensitive:$false | Select-Object -First 10
+              Write-Host "::endgroup::"
+            }
+            
+            if (Select-String -Path "build.log" -Pattern "LNK[0-9]{4}" -Quiet) {
+              Write-Host "`n::group::Linker errors" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+              Select-String -Path "build.log" -Pattern "LNK[0-9]{4}" | Select-Object -First 10
+              Write-Host "::endgroup::"
+            }
+            
+            if (Select-String -Path "build.log" -Pattern "fatal error" -Quiet) {
+              Write-Host "`n::group::Fatal errors" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+              Select-String -Path "build.log" -Pattern "fatal error" | Select-Object -First 10
+              Write-Host "::endgroup::"
+            }
+          }
+          
+          # List vcpkg installed packages
+          $vcpkgExe = "${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg/vcpkg.exe"
+          if (Test-Path $vcpkgExe) {
+            Write-Host "`n::group::Installed vcpkg packages"
+            & $vcpkgExe list
+            Write-Host "::endgroup::"
           }
           exit 1
 

cmake/grpc_windows.cmake

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ option(YAZE_USE_VCPKG_GRPC "Use vcpkg pre-compiled gRPC packages (Windows only)"
 
 if(WIN32 AND YAZE_USE_VCPKG_GRPC)
   message(STATUS "Attempting to use vcpkg gRPC packages for faster Windows builds...")
-  message(STATUS "  Note: This is only for full builds with YAZE_WITH_GRPC=ON")
+  message(STATUS "  Note: If gRPC not in vcpkg.json, will fallback to FetchContent (recommended)")
   
   # Debug: Check if vcpkg toolchain is being used
   if(DEFINED VCPKG_TOOLCHAIN)
@@ -238,21 +238,15 @@ if(WIN32 AND YAZE_USE_VCPKG_GRPC)
     message(STATUS "gRPC setup complete via vcpkg (includes bundled Abseil)")
     return()
   else()
-    message(WARNING "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━")
-    message(WARNING "  vcpkg gRPC not found")
-    message(WARNING "  For faster builds (5 min vs 45 min), install:")
-    message(WARNING "  ")
-    message(WARNING "    vcpkg install grpc:x64-windows")
-    message(WARNING "  ")
-    message(WARNING "  Then configure with:")
-    message(WARNING "    cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<vcpkg>/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake ..")
-    message(WARNING "  ")
-    message(WARNING "  Falling back to FetchContent (slow but works)")
-    message(WARNING "  Using gRPC v1.67.1 (MSVC-compatible)")
-    message(WARNING "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━")
+    message(STATUS "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━")
+    message(STATUS "  vcpkg gRPC not found (expected if removed from vcpkg.json)")
+    message(STATUS "  Using FetchContent build (faster with caching)")
+    message(STATUS "  First build: ~10-15 min, subsequent: <1 min (cached)")
+    message(STATUS "  Using gRPC v1.67.1 for Windows compatibility")
+    message(STATUS "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━")
   endif()
 endif()
 
 # If we reach here, vcpkg wasn't used - fall back to standard grpc.cmake
-message(STATUS "Using FetchContent for gRPC (standard path)")
+message(STATUS "Using FetchContent for gRPC (recommended path for Windows)")
 set(YAZE_GRPC_CONFIGURED FALSE PARENT_SCOPE)

vcpkg.json

@@ -5,14 +5,6 @@
   "description": "Yet Another Zelda3 Editor",
   "builtin-baseline": "b2c74683ecfd6a8e7d27ffb0df077f66a9339509",
   "dependencies": [
-    {
-      "name": "grpc",
-      "platform": "windows"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "protobuf",
-      "platform": "windows"
-    },
     {
       "name": "sdl2",
       "platform": "windows"
@@ -20,10 +12,6 @@
     {
       "name": "yaml-cpp",
       "platform": "windows"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "zlib",
-      "platform": "windows"
     }
   ]
 }