How to consume cairo library on Windows?

[Endilll]

While on Linux one has pkg-config out of the box, and can leverage FindPkgConfig, it's quite exotic for Windows.

Adding a host-only dependency pkgconf resolves that, but I don't see a way to ask vcpkg for host triplet, which is required to form a path to pkgconf and use it to set PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE.

I found that vcpkg_pkgconfig_get_modules jumps through some hoops to work around that. I tried to get advantage of that, but it seems that x_vcpkg_pkgconfig_get_modules is available in portfiles only.

So, what's the idiomatic way of consuming cairo and other pkg-config libraries on Windows?

[Neumann-A]

but I don't see a way to ask vcpkg for host triplet,

Set VCPKG_HOST_TRIPLET and make pkgconf a host dependency in your manifest.

[Endilll]

I'd like to rely on host triplet auto-detection, since I'm not doing anything fancy and want to avoid human mistakes.