xmake
🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (by xmake-io)
Vcpkg
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS (by microsoft)
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| xmake | Vcpkg | |
|---|---|---|
| 163 | 146 | |
| 8,755 | 21,439 | |
| 3.1% | 2.2% | |
| 10.0 | 10.0 | |
| 3 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Lua | CMake | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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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.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
xmake
Posts with mentions or reviews of xmake.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-31.
- Cpp2 and cppfront – An experimental 'C++ syntax 2' and its first compiler
- An Introduction to Modern CMake
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How to Structure C Projects: These Best Practices Worked for Me
In recent times I prefer Xmake[0] to CMake.
[0] https://xmake.io
- xmake: Fast and lightweight build tools with dependency package integration
- Xmake v2.8.5 released, Support for link sorting and unit testing
- Xmake v2.8.3 Released, Improve Wasm and Support Xmake Source Debugging
- Xmake v2.8.2 Released, Official package repository count over 1k
- Xmake v2.8.1 Released, Lots of Detailed Feature Improvements
Vcpkg
Posts with mentions or reviews of Vcpkg.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-29.
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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
5.4.5 can be compromised
https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/37197
- GitHub - microsoft/vcpkg: C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
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Dependencies Belong in Version Control
vcpkg may expire assets after 1.5 years, so achieve long-term reproducibility you will need to cache your dependencies.... Somewhere. Not sure what the expected solution is.
https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/30546#issuecomment-1...
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My first Software Release using GitHub Release
There were various approaches recommended depending on our language and ecosystem. My classmates who developed using Node.js were recommended npm, and PyPI or poetry for Python. Since my program is written in C++, I was recommended to look into one of vcpkg or conan, but I ultimately did not use either package manager.
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Anyone else frustrated with Conan2?
Which dependencies are not in vcpkg? We can ask them to add it. It’s pretty easy just open an issue there https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues .
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How to install libraries for c++ on a Linux CentOS supercomputer where I'm not a sudoer
./vcpkg search netcdf gdal[netcdf] Enable NetCDF support minc 2.4.03#3 MINC - Medical Image NetCDF or MINC isn't netCDF minc[minc1] Support minc1 file format, requires NETCDF netcdf-c 4.8.1#2 A set of self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support th... netcdf-c[dap] Build with DAP remote access client support netcdf-c[hdf5] Build with HDF5 support netcdf-c[nczarr] Build with NCZarr cloud storage access support netcdf-c[nczarr-zip] Build with NCZarr ZIP support netcdf-c[netcdf-4] Build with netCDF-4 support netcdf-c[platform-default-features] Enable platform-dependent default features netcdf-c[tools] Build utilities netcdf-cxx4 4.3.1#4 a set of machine-independent data formats that support the creation, acces... The result may be outdated. Run `git pull` to get the latest results. If your port is not listed, please open an issue at and/or consider making a pull request. - https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/issues
- Does anyone has a idea to read out dependencies out of c/cpp directories to create .sbom files?
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hypergrep: A new "fastest grep" to search directories recursively for a regex pattern
The hyperscan update to vcpkg seems to have happened from 5.4.0 to 5.4.2 in this commit on Apr 20.
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Configuring incomplete due to CMake Error(missing OpenCVConfig.cmake ProtobufConfig.cmake and TIFF etc.)
Dear Fictrac team, I am hoping to install Fictrac in our windows 11 x64 laptop (Visual Studio 2019, cMake 3.26.4). I followed the installation guideline on github page fictrac and used the latest vcpkg
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Why does Arch Linux have a vulkan-devel group, but does not package the LunarG Vulkan SDK?
This works fine if one wants to do stuff like clang main.cpp -lvulkan, or even find_package(Vulkan REQUIRED) in CMake, but it doesn't define VULKAN_SDK, and therefore doesn't work with vcpkg's Vulkan support, for instance. A fair bit of Vulkan development, tutorials, etc. assume that the entire SDK is installed, as-is.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xmake and Vcpkg you can also consider the following projects:
meson - The Meson Build System
conan - Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager
cmake-init - The missing CMake project initializer
CPM.cmake - 📦 CMake's missing package manager. A small CMake script for setup-free, cross-platform, reproducible dependency management.
Boost.Program_options - Boost.org program_options module
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
Ncurses - ncurses Git mirror
ninja - a small build system with a focus on speed
vulkan - Haskell bindings for Vulkan
wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library