Building for MSVC with CMake

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I've been using Allegro 5 through the Nuget package in MSVC for a long time and I am just now branching out to try to learn some cross platform practices using cmake. I have been struggling for days trying to make something work. Linux is easy, just download the package through apt and link using pkg-config done and done. Windows is a nightmare!

I guess my first question is, are there any precompiled binaries for MSVC? The ones you can download from https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/releases appear to be only for MinGW/GCC if I am not mistaken. I tried to build Allegro 5 myself, but I see that the allegro deps from https://github.com/liballeg/allegro_winpkg/releases also appear to be for MinGW/GCC. I was unable to get it to compile using those deps. Do I need to find and build all the dependencies myself for MSVC?

I imagine an alternative would be to just use MinGW with something like VSCode and just use the precompiled libraries? I could do that, though I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong with MSVC.

Thanks for reading, please forgive me if I'm just going about this all the wrong way.