cppan vs sw

cppan

Project evolved into Software Network: https://github.com/SoftwareNetwork/sw (by cppan)

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sw

Software Manager. Build System, Build System Generator and Package Manager. C/C++ and other languages. Tools and libraries for Software Management. (by SoftwareNetwork)

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cppan		sw
	Project
1	Mentions	2
106	Stars	112
-0.9%	Growth	4.5%
5.4	Activity	8.6
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	10 days ago
C++	Language	C++
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

cppan

Posts with mentions or reviews of cppan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-12.

Which is your most loved feature of C++?
3 projects | /r/cpp | 12 Oct 2021

When I discovered vcpkg I waq very disappointed and started to look for alternatives. I found cppan (https://github.com/cppan/cppan) which was exactly what I was looking for (A bit like npm but for C++). It became sw and I don't really like that name but it's still the best thing I've found for handling dependencies on Windows.

sw

Posts with mentions or reviews of sw. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-14.

HMake - The First Of Its Kind. A Build System That Uses C++ For Configuration File.
1 project | /r/cpp | 8 Jul 2021

Not the first to use C++ : https://github.com/SoftwareNetwork/sw
BuildSystem where build scripts are written in C++
5 projects | /r/cpp | 14 Jun 2021

You might want to look at https://github.com/SoftwareNetwork/sw , they too write build scripts in c++ and there is a comparison section in documentation with differend build systems.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cppan and sw you can also consider the following projects:

cmake-cookbook - CMake Cookbook recipes.

bpt - A C++ tool for a new decade

Vanilla-Conquer - Vanilla Conquer provides clean, cross-platform builds of the C&C Remastered Collection and the standalone legacy games.

Bear - Bear is a tool that generates a compilation database for clang tooling.

poac - A package manager and build system for C++

build_in_cpp - Build C, C++ and ASM files in C++

cpk - Light and fast package manager on C/C++ for C/C++/Python/Rust/Js packages

cmkr - Modern build system based on CMake and TOML.

abseil-cpp - Abseil Common Libraries (C++)

winget-cli - WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

CPM.cmake - 📦 CMake's missing package manager. A small CMake script for setup-free, cross-platform, reproducible dependency management.