DownloadVcpkg helps you manage C and C++ libraries on Windows, Linux and MacOS. This tool and ecosystem are constantly evolving, and we always appreciate contributions! After you've gotten vcpkg installed and working, you may wish to add tab completion to your shell. With CMake, you will still need to find_package and the like to use the libraries. Check out the CMake section for more information, including on using CMake with an IDE. In classic mode, vcpkg produces an "installed" tree, whose contents are changed by explicit calls to vcpkg install or vcpkg remove. The installed tree is intended for consumption by any number of projects: for example, installing a bunch of libraries and then using those libraries from Visual Studio, without additional configuration. Because the installed tree is not associated with an individual project, it's similar to tools like brew or apt, except that the installed tree is vcpkg-installation-local, rather than global to a system or user.
Features
- Vcpkg offers many ways to integrate into your build so you can do what's right for your project
- Projects configured with the Vcpkg toolchain file will have the appropriate Vcpkg folders added to the cmake search paths
- In Vcpkg, we use triplets to describe an imaginary "target configuration set" for every library
- The environment variable can be set to a comma-separated list of off-by-default features in vcpkg
- vcpkg has two modes of consuming dependencies - classic mode and manifest mode
- Binary caching is vcpkg's method for reusing package builds between projects and between machines
Project Samples
