CMake and the Future of C++ Package Management

1. CPM.cmake

   1 41 3,161 4.9 CMake

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

   

   I haven't tried boost through CPM, but in the wiki there is an example: https://github.com/TheLartians/CPM.cmake/wiki/More-Snippets#boost-via-boost-cmake so it seems that it can

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. Vcpkg

   2 147 23,823 10.0 CMake

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

   

   It doesn't support versions. I live at head so I don't care about that, I want the latest version available. No idea about Windows Server Core Docker, I don't use it but according to the bug tracker the person who complained about that actually just had a failed installation. I use vcpkg in manifest mode + cmake with github's actions and don't have issues with it being any slower than it would normally be building my dependencies the first time. The trick is to treat dependencies as artifacts to be cached, an option most CI services have and a pretty common strategy for CI in general.

4. cmake-conan

   3 18 845 4.4 Python

   CMake wrapper for conan C and C++ package manager

   

   It wrong for conan too, you have this script to run conan from cmake : https://github.com/conan-io/cmake-conan

5. xmake

   4 167 10,507 9.9 Lua

   🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

   

   xmake already supports c/c++ package management well. https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake

6. Moby

   5 229 69,009 10.0 Go

   The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

   

   Sadly yes. Here's the relevant github issue for Docker (and I get the impression that it is Docker's fault rather than vcpkg's) and it seems to have got basically no attention.

7. boost-cmake

   6 1 400 0.0 CMake

   Easy Boost integration in CMake projects

   I published this later to achieve the same thing: https://github.com/Orphis/boost-cmake (though I lack time to upgrade it to recent versions now...).

8. FunctionalPlus

   7 10 2,154 7.1 C++

   Functional Programming Library for C++. Write concise and readable C++ code.

   

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