diff --git a/ports/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/cmake_get_vars/CMakeLists.txt b/ports/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/cmake_get_vars/CMakeLists.txt
index 7de32bbe63..7e4c45a34d 100644
--- a/ports/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/cmake_get_vars/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/ports/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/cmake_get_vars/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ set(COMPILERS ${VCPKG_LANGUAGES} RC)
 foreach(prog IN LISTS COMPILERS)
     list(APPEND VCPKG_DEFAULT_VARS_TO_CHECK CMAKE_${prog}_COMPILER)
     list(APPEND VCPKG_DEFAULT_VARS_TO_CHECK CMAKE_${prog}_COMPILER_ID)
+    list(APPEND VCPKG_DEFAULT_VARS_TO_CHECK CMAKE_${prog}_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT)
 endforeach()
 # Variables to check
 foreach(_lang IN LISTS VCPKG_LANGUAGES)
diff --git a/ports/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/vcpkg.json b/ports/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/vcpkg.json
index 9638bae51b..61b2fc7ba0 100644
--- a/ports/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "vcpkg-cmake-get-vars",
-  "version-date": "2022-09-04",
+  "version-date": "2022-12-16",
   "documentation": "https://vcpkg.io/en/docs/README.html",
   "license": "MIT",
   "dependencies": [
diff --git a/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_configure_make.cmake b/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_configure_make.cmake
index f7ada3f093..84a45d8592 100644
--- a/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_configure_make.cmake
+++ b/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_configure_make.cmake
@@ -79,14 +79,25 @@ macro(z_vcpkg_extract_cpp_flags_and_set_cflags_and_cxxflags flag_suffix)
     string(REGEX REPLACE " +" " " CPPFLAGS_${flag_suffix} "${CPPFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}")
     string(REGEX REPLACE " +" " " CFLAGS_${flag_suffix} "${CFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}")
     string(REGEX REPLACE " +" " " CXXFLAGS_${flag_suffix} "${CXXFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}")
-    # libtool has and -R option so we need to guard against -RTC by using -Xcompiler
-    # while configuring there might be a lot of unknown compiler option warnings due to that
-    # just ignore them. 
-    string(REGEX REPLACE "((-|/)RTC[^ ]+)" "-Xcompiler \\1" CFLAGS_${flag_suffix} "${CFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}")
-    string(REGEX REPLACE "((-|/)RTC[^ ]+)" "-Xcompiler \\1" CXXFLAGS_${flag_suffix} "${CXXFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}")
     string(STRIP "${CPPFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}" CPPFLAGS_${flag_suffix})
     string(STRIP "${CFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}" CFLAGS_${flag_suffix})
     string(STRIP "${CXXFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}" CXXFLAGS_${flag_suffix})
+    # libtool tries to filter CFLAGS passed to the link stage via a whitelist.
+    # that approach is flawed since it fails to pass flags unknown to libtool
+    # but required for linking to the link stage (e.g. -fsanitize=<x>).
+    # libtool has an -R option so we need to guard against -RTC by using -Xcompiler
+    # while configuring there might be a lot of unknown compiler option warnings due to that
+    # just ignore them.
+    if(VCPKG_DETECTED_CMAKE_C_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT STREQUAL "MSVC" OR VCPKG_DETECTED_CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "MSVC")
+      separate_arguments(CFLAGS_LIST NATIVE_COMMAND "${CFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}")
+      list(JOIN CFLAGS_LIST " -Xcompiler " CFLAGS_${var_suffix})
+      string(PREPEND CFLAGS_${var_suffix} "-Xcompiler ")
+    endif()
+    if(VCPKG_DETECTED_CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT STREQUAL "MSVC" OR VCPKG_DETECTED_CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "MSVC")
+      separate_arguments(CXXFLAGS_LIST NATIVE_COMMAND "${CXXFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}")
+      list(JOIN CXXFLAGS_LIST " -Xcompiler " CXXFLAGS_${var_suffix})
+      string(PREPEND CXXFLAGS_${var_suffix} "-Xcompiler ")
+    endif()
     debug_message("CPPFLAGS_${flag_suffix}: ${CPPFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}")
     debug_message("CFLAGS_${flag_suffix}: ${CFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}")
     debug_message("CXXFLAGS_${flag_suffix}: ${CXXFLAGS_${flag_suffix}}")
diff --git a/scripts/get_cmake_vars/CMakeLists.txt b/scripts/get_cmake_vars/CMakeLists.txt
index ee43ddb3d4..1f97de305d 100644
--- a/scripts/get_cmake_vars/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/scripts/get_cmake_vars/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ foreach(prog IN LISTS PROGLIST)
 endforeach()
 set(COMPILERS ${VCPKG_LANGUAGES} RC)
 foreach(prog IN LISTS COMPILERS)
-    list(APPEND VCPKG_DEFAULT_VARS_TO_CHECK CMAKE_${prog}_COMPILER CMAKE_${prog}_COMPILER_ID)
+    list(APPEND VCPKG_DEFAULT_VARS_TO_CHECK CMAKE_${prog}_COMPILER CMAKE_${prog}_COMPILER_ID CMAKE_${prog}_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT)
 endforeach()
 # Variables to check
 foreach(_lang IN LISTS VCPKG_LANGUAGES)
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 0f96ad99fd..7b07442375 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -7889,7 +7889,7 @@
       "port-version": 1
     },
     "vcpkg-cmake-get-vars": {
-      "baseline": "2022-09-04",
+      "baseline": "2022-12-16",
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "vcpkg-get-python-packages": {
diff --git a/versions/v-/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars.json b/versions/v-/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars.json
index 17841423d3..47e032be3c 100644
--- a/versions/v-/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars.json
+++ b/versions/v-/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "bad453fe7f58edb2e8d0093692dcaa52347e446c",
+      "version-date": "2022-12-16",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "898079c6021ced406d7c75f852e67a5e8861db9b",
       "version-date": "2022-09-04",