Vcpkg

Open source package manager

vcpkg
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	2016; 8 years ago (2016)

Stable release	2023.11.20 / November 21, 2023; 5 months ago (2023-11-21)

Repository	github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
Written in	C++
Operating system	Windows (11, 10, 8.1, 7), macOS, Linux
Platform	IA-32, x86-64, ARM, ARM64
Type	Package manager
License	MIT License
Website	vcpkg.io

vcpkg is a cross-platform open source package manager by Microsoft.^[1]

Overview

vcpkg provides access to C and C++ libraries to its supported platforms. The command-line utility is currently available on Windows, macOS and Linux.^[2]

vcpkg was first announced at CppCon 2016.^[3]

The vcpkg source code is licensed under MIT License and hosted on GitHub.^[4]

vcpkg supports Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and above.

References

^ "Yelp launches Yelp Fusion, Microsoft creates Vcpkg tool, and the new Touch Sense SDK for Android developers". SD Times. September 20, 2016.
^ "Microsoft's C++ library manager now available for Linux and macOS". SD Times. April 25, 2018.
^ "Announcing a single C++ library manager for Linux, macOS and Windows: Vcpkg". C++ Team Blog. April 24, 2018.
^ "GitHub - microsoft/vcpkg: C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS". December 14, 2019 – via GitHub.

External links

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Windows Programming

Official website
vcpkg on GitHub

Microsoft free and open-source software (FOSS)

Overview

Software

Applications	3D Movie Maker Atom Conference XP Family.Show File Manager Open Live Writer Microsoft PowerToys Terminal Windows Calculator Windows Console Windows Package Manager WorldWide Telescope XML Notepad
Video games	Allegiance
Programming languages	Bosque C# Dafny F# F* GW-BASIC IronPython IronRuby Lean P Power Fx PowerShell Project Verona Q# R Open Small Basic Online TypeScript Visual Basic
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Operating systems	MS-DOS (v1.25, v2.0 & v4.0) Barrelfish SONiC Azure Linux
Other	ChronoZoom Extensible Storage Engine FlexWiki FourQ Gollum Project Mu ReactiveX SILK TLAPS TPM 2.0 Reference Implementation WikiBhasha

Licenses

Forges

Category

Microsoft development tools

Development
environments

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Others	Blend Expression Web FxCop GW-BASIC MACRO-80 Macro Assembler MSBuild Pascal QuickBASIC QBasic QuickC Robotics Developer Studio Roslyn SharePoint Designer FrontPage Small Basic WebMatrix Windows App SDK Windows App Studio Windows SDK CLR Profiler ILAsm Native Image Generator WinDiff XAMLPad

Languages

Dynamics AX
BASIC
Visual Basic
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Visual C++
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C#
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Dafny
Dexterity
F#
F*
Visual FoxPro
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JavaScript
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IronPython
IronRuby
Lean
P
Power Fx
PowerShell
Project Verona
Q#
Small Basic
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XAML

APIs and
frameworks

Native	Windows API Silverlight XNA DirectX Managed DirectX UWP Xbox Development Kit Windows Installer WinUI
.NET	ASP.NET Core AJAX Dynamic Data MVC Razor Web Forms ADO.NET Entity Framework MAUI CardSpace Communication Foundation Identity Foundation LINQ Presentation Foundation Workflow Foundation
Device drivers	WDK WDF KMDF UMDF Windows HLK WDM

Database

SQL Server	Express Compact Management Studio Business Intelligence Development Studio MSDE
SQL services	Analysis Reporting Integration Notification
Other	Visual FoxPro Microsoft Access Access Database Engine Extensible Storage Engine