cpm vs hunter

cpm

C++ Package Manager (by iauns)

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CMake driven cross-platform package manager for C/C++. (by cpp-pm)

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cpm		hunter
	Project
1	Mentions	7
735	Stars	581
-	Growth	2.1%
0.0	Activity	7.4
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	12 days ago
CMake	Language	CMake
MIT License	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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cpm

Posts with mentions or reviews of cpm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-23.

About C++ Dependency Management
6 projects | /r/cpp | 23 May 2022

hunter

Posts with mentions or reviews of hunter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.

LearnCPP: Website devoted to teaching you how to program in C++
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2023
About C++ Dependency Management
6 projects | /r/cpp | 23 May 2022
Best way to manage dependencies with c++?
15 projects | /r/cpp | 2 Feb 2022

You forgot https://github.com/cpp-pm/hunter, which actually has more packages than Conan, but less than vcpkg.
JSON for Modern C++ version 3.10.0
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Aug 2021

Use Hunter for dependency management
https://github.com/cpp-pm/hunter
There is a bit of a learning curve, but it's the only dependency manager that does things right (all from within CMake)
[poll] State of package managers in 2021
7 projects | /r/cpp | 17 Feb 2021

Hunter package manager is missing. Or is it a part of "managing dependencies manually?"
Is it possible to automatically generate a C project like you can do with Rust using Cargo?
2 projects | /r/C_Programming | 2 Jan 2021

Ahh yep fair enough. I've used hunter for that previously but conan looks really good.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cpm and hunter you can also consider the following projects:

xmake - 🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

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

Soup - Soup is a build system that guarantees incremental build correctness and aims to simplify many aspects of developing shared code while maintaining best in class performance.

Vcpkg - C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS

cmake-conan - CMake wrapper for conan C and C++ package manager

miniforge - A conda-forge distribution.

json-schema-validator - JSON schema validator for JSON for Modern C++

conan-center-index - Recipes for the ConanCenter repository

vcpkg-tool - Components of microsoft/vcpkg's binary.

cpp-project-template - C++ project template: starting point for new projects

ccache - ccache – a fast compiler cache