Example of installation for Windows using vcpkg | Qt Protobuf 6.8.0
Description: Installing instructions for Protobuf and gRPC on Windows.

- Qt 6.8
- Qt Protobuf
- Example of installation for Windows using vcpkg
- Qt 6.8.0 Reference Documentation

# Example of installation for Windows using vcpkg

You can install `Protobuf` and `gRPC` packages on Windows using vcpkg.

Note: As an alternative solution, you can build `Protobuf` and `gRPC` packages manually. Build instructions can be found for Protobuf and gRPC respectively.

Windows installation prerequisites:

- The vcpkg package manager
- Microsoft Visual C++ compiler
- Qt 6.6 or later, including Additional libraries: Qt Protobuf and Qt GRPC

The `vcpkg` is a cross-platform C/C++ package manager. You can use the `vcpkg` for `Protobuf`, `gRPC` and its dependencies installation:

     .\vcpkg.exe install protobuf protobuf:x64-windows
     .\vcpkg.exe install grpc:x64-windows

Finally, you can build and execute Qt-based projects with `Protobuf` and `gRPC` support. For instance, run Magic 8 Ball from your installed version of Qt. The example requires both packages to be installed, since `Magic 8 Ball` uses native C++ source code generator plugin for the server part of application. Following steps are required to start `Magic 8 Ball` example:

- Find Magic 8 Ball in `Examples` section:

- Choose MSVC-based building kit from Qt-creator configuration settings:

- Add the paths to the installed `Protobuf` and `gRPC` packages to the `CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH` environment variable inside `Initial Configuration` settings block:

- Build and Run.