A C/C++ package manager
Conclusions
All told, the vcpkg package manager gives programmers a lean solution for compiling source code on different platforms in combination with CMake. It saves the time of installing the appropriate versions of the required libraries because vcpkg builds the libraries locally.
To be fair, though, vcpkg's initial overhead is quite high. While installing an RPM or DEB of a very large library such as OpenCascade takes just one or two minutes, compiling takes about half an hour. However, once the dependencies have been compiled for the first time, this time difference disappears, and the ultimate reward is a platform-independent build system.
Vcpkg is not just available locally: Pratik Chougule has provided a project setup [9] for compiling on Jenkins [10]. With GitHub Actions, vcpkg can also be used for building on GitHub. Even if you occasionally have to use a commercial library, you can still benefit from vcpkg. In the Microsoft Developer Blogs, Augustin Popa [11] explains how commercial libraries can be integrated into the setup with vcpkg. Taking a look at vcpkg is worth the time of any C/C++ developer.
Infos
- Maven Central: https://search.maven.org
- NuGet: https://www.nuget.org
- vcpkg: https://vcpkg.io
- Conan: https://conan.io
- vcpkg on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
- Conan on GitHub: https://github.com/conan-io/conan
- fmt: https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt
- Example: https://github.com/skfcz/vcpkg
- Jenkins project: https://github.com/planetpratik/CMake-Jenkins-CPP
- Jenkins: https://www.jenkins.io
- Closed source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/registries-bring-your-own-libraries-to-vcpkg/
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