Installation of mongo-cxx-driver 3.x using vcpkg

At the suggestion of mongodb support I am trying to using the mongo-cxx-driver 3.6.5 using Visual Studio 2019 along with vcpkg package management program version 2025-02-11-bec4296bf5289dc9ce83b4f5095943e44162f9c2.

To specify the version I wanted, I edited D:\vcpkg3\ports\mongo-cxx-driver\vcpkg.json and set the “version” value to “3.6.5”

vcpkg install mongo-cxx-driver

results in several packages installing (libbson, mongo-c-driver) but when it gets to the mongo-cxx part, I get the following errors:

Downloading https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver/archive/r3.6.5.tar.gz → mongodb-mongo-cxx-driver-r3.6.5.tar.gz
D:\vcpkg\downloads\mongodb-mongo-cxx-driver-r3.6.5.tar.gz.4312.part: error: download from https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver/archive/r3.6.5.tar.gz had an unexpected hash
note: Expected: 7b6564cb5087b03886f3c99aa5da9e87a898b1bd1098393a7668e39d673d6203a39f7fa95e5bef995f5e53c18654ef1806823cf643a994a8c19a1df75b9eb306
note: Actual : fe304d2f406f65d79a030dcfd1509543a9ab3057e46328d5ca1fc58da04758b9a2c6666a6194d574f9b42022324972d41c37d00d6fba87dfba63fbfb99e821de
CMake Error at scripts/cmake/vcpkg_download_distfile.cmake:124 (message):
Download failed, halting portfile.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
scripts/cmake/vcpkg_from_github.cmake:106 (vcpkg_download_distfile)
ports/mongo-cxx-driver/portfile.cmake:1 (vcpkg_from_github)
scripts/ports.cmake:203 (include)

Can anyone suggest how to get this resolved? Who should I report it to?

You can report it to the vcpkg team - GitHub - microsoft/vcpkg: C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
The vcpkg port is maintained by them.

Out of curiosity, what’s the reason behind using such an old version of the driver?

I’m trying to connect from a C++ based client program authenticated by PKI certificates. Its not working as expected with v4 of the driver, so mongoDB enterprise support suggested I try the using 3.6.5. Unfortunately none of the vcpkg / mongo-cxx-driver packages are installing properly now