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What’s New in vcpkg (April 2024)

May 8, 2024 May 8, 2024 05/8/24
Augustin Popa
What’s New in vcpkg (April 2024) This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.04.26 release as well as changes to vcpkg documentation throughout April. This month’s vcpkg release includes improvements for visually generated dependency graphs, a new triplet variable for tweaking what files are ...

What’s New in vcpkg (March 2024)

March 29, 2024 Mar 29, 2024 03/29/24
Augustin Popa
This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.03.19 and 2024.03.25 releases as well as changes to vcpkg documentation throughout March. This month’s vcpkg release includes an arm64ec platform expression, more flexibility when mixing static and dynamic libraries, diagnostics improvements, a change in the ...

What’s New in vcpkg (February 2024)

February 29, 2024 Feb 29, 2024 02/29/24
Augustin Popa
This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.02.14 release and changes to vcpkg documentation throughout February. This month’s vcpkg release was mainly minor bug fixes, while several new documentation articles were added. Some stats for this period:   vcpkg changelog (...

A Year of C++ Improvements in Visual Studio, VS Code, and vcpkg

February 12, 2024 Feb 12, 2024 02/12/24
Sy Brand
As we enter the new year, it’s a good time to look back at all the features and improvements we made for C++ developers in our tools in 2023. We’ve made advancements across Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, our toolchain, and the vcpkg package manager in both performance and functionality. Some particular areas of focus have been ARM64 ...

What’s New in vcpkg (January 2024)

January 30, 2024 Jan 30, 2024 01/30/24
Augustin Popa
This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.01.12 release and changes to vcpkg documentation throughout January. This month’s vcpkg release was mainly minor bug fixes, while several new documentation articles were added. Some stats for this period:   vcpkg changelog (...

What’s New in the vcpkg 2023.12.12 Release

December 16, 2023 Dec 16, 2023 12/16/23
Augustin Popa
The 2023.12.12 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from November 21st, 2023 to December 12th, 2023 for the Microsoft/vcpkg, Microsoft/vcpkg-tool, and Microsoft/vcpkg-docs GitHub repos. Some stats for this period:   Feature changes   Bug ...

What’s New in the vcpkg 2023.11.20 Release

November 28, 2023 Nov 28, 2023 11/28/23
Augustin Popa
The 2023.11.20 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from October 19th, 2023 to November 19th, 2023 for the Microsoft/vcpkg, Microsoft/vcpkg-tool, and Microsoft/vcpkg-docs GitHub repos. Some stats for this period:   Key changes This vcpkg update includes some ...

Debug vcpkg portfiles in CMake script mode with Visual Studio Code

November 16, 2023 Nov 16, 2023 11/16/23
Ben McMorran
We recently announced support for debugging the CMake language using the VS Code CMake Tools extension. Now in version 1.16 of the extension, you can fine-tune the debugger configuration using a launch.json file. This enables debugging in CMake script mode in addition to the existing debugging of CMake project generation.  CMake script ...