vcpkg/docs

Quick Start

The latest version of this documentation is available on GitHub.

Vcpkg helps you manage C and C++ libraries on Windows, Linux and MacOS. This tool and ecosystem are constantly evolving; your involvement is vital to its success!

Examples

• Installing and Using Packages Example: sqlite
• Packaging Zipfiles Example: zlib
• Packaging GitHub Repositories Example: libogg
• Patching Example: Patching libpng to work for x64-uwp
• Getting Started with Versioning
• Manifest Mode: CMake Example
• Pin old Boost Versions
• Using Overlay Triplets

Command Line Reference

• Common Options
• Commands
  • vcpkg install
  • vcpkg integrate
  • vcpkg list
  • vcpkg remove
  • vcpkg search
  • vcpkg update-baseline
  • vcpkg version

User Help

• Buildsystem Integration
• Triplet files
• Configuration and Environment
• Authentication
• Manifest Mode
• Binary Caching
• Asset Caching
• Versioning
• Usage with Android
• Usage with Mingw-w64
• Host Dependencies
• Using Registries

Maintainer Help

• Manifest Files - vcpkg.json
• Control Files
• Portfile Functions
• Authoring Script Ports
• Common CMake Definitions
• Maintainer Guidelines
• Creating Registries
• CMake Guidelines

Vcpkg-Tool Maintainer Help

• Testing
• Benchmarking
• Layout of the vcpkg source tree

Community Resources (not directly affiliated with vcpkg)

• vcpkgx.com - Package index + search
• vcpkg.dev - Package index + search
• vcpkg.link - Package index + search

Blog posts

• Vcpkg Host Dependencies for Cross-Compilation
• Registries: Bring your own libraries to vcpkg
• Vcpkg: Accelerate your team development environment with binary caching and manifests
• Vcpkg: 2019.06 Update (overlay ports, overlay triplets, vcpkg_check_features)
• Announcing a single C++ library manager for Linux, macOS and Windows: Vcpkg
• Vcpkg: Using multiple enlistments to handle multiple versions of a library
• Vcpkg: introducing the export command
• Binary Compatibility and Pain-free Upgrade Why Moving to Visual Studio 2017 is almost "too easy"
• Vcpkg recent enhancements
• Vcpkg 3 Months Anniversary, Survey
• Vcpkg updates: Static linking is now available
• Vcpkg: a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows

Other

• FAQ
• Privacy