Vcpkg Alternatives

Vcpkg reviews and mentions

• Xmake: A modern C/C++ build tool
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2024

  re: C/C++ development: anybody using conda/pixi for dependency management? Here's an example of compiling a C++ SDL program using pixi and the SDL dependency from conda-forge [1].

  Seems viable as a replacement for things like vckpg [2] which only builds from source.

  I'm still researching this but it seems like rattler [3] is the tool to use to build/publish packages. The supported repos are: prefix.dev's own hosting, anaconda.org, artifactory or a self-hosted server.

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  1: https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/blob/main/examples/cpp-sd...

  2: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg

  3: https://prefix-dev.github.io/rattler-build/latest/authentica...

• Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
  49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024

  5.4.5 can be compromised

  https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/37197

• GitHub - microsoft/vcpkg: C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
  1 project | /r/u_Swizzle_Sir_Flickka | 6 Dec 2023
• Dependencies Belong in Version Control
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023

  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...

• My first Software Release using GitHub Release
  6 projects | dev.to | 24 Nov 2023

  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.

• Anyone else frustrated with Conan2?
  3 projects | /r/cpp | 31 Aug 2023

  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 .

• How to install libraries for c++ on a Linux CentOS supercomputer where I'm not a sudoer
  1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 29 Jun 2023

  ./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?
  1 project | /r/cpp | 21 Jun 2023
• hypergrep: A new "fastest grep" to search directories recursively for a regex pattern
  9 projects | /r/cpp | 7 Jun 2023

  The hyperscan update to vcpkg seems to have happened from 5.4.0 to 5.4.2 in this commit on Apr 20.

• Configuring incomplete due to CMake Error(missing OpenCVConfig.cmake ProtobufConfig.cmake and TIFF etc.)
  2 projects | /r/fictrac | 23 May 2023

  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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