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August 15, 2019Aug 15, 201908/15/19The 2019.07 update of vcpkg, a tool that helps you manage C and C++ libraries on Windows, Linux, and macOS, is now available. This update is a summary of the new functionality and improvements made to vcpkg over the past month.
July 19, 2019Jul 19, 201907/19/19The 2019.06 update of vcpkg, a tool that helps you manage C and C++ libraries on Windows, Linux, and MacOS, is now available. This is the first time we’ve created a vcpkg release on our GitHub repository. This update is designed to bring you a summary of the new functionality and improvements made to vcpkg over about a month’s time.
April 24, 2018Apr 24, 201804/24/18At Microsoft, the core of our vision is “Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform” and we are committed to bringing you the most productive development tools and services to build your apps across all platforms. With this in mind, we are thrilled to announce today the availability of vcpkg on Linux and MacOS.
February 6, 2018Feb 6, 201802/6/18We are happy to announce a new feature for vcpkg in version 0.0.103: Feature Packages.
Vcpkg is a package manager to help acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows; vcpkg currently offers over 600 C++ libraries available for VS2017 and VS2015.
January 16, 2018Jan 16, 201801/16/18If you’re just getting started and want to learn more about vcpkg, check out our initial post.
We recently added a new option to vcpkg (i.e. vcpkg contact –survey) to provide a direct way to share your feedback with the Vcpkg team.
October 23, 2017Oct 23, 201710/23/17Vcpkg allows you to acquire and build 3rd party libraries on Windows. Once cloned, the vcpkg directory (enlistment) provides a stable set of libraries that are all compatible and based on the latest published version of these libraries. Occasionally, you may need different versions of the same library.
May 3, 2017May 3, 201705/3/17Vcpkg helps you acquire and build open source libraries on Windows. Since September 2016, the community added more than 200 libraries in the vcpkg catalog and has been contributing actively to the code itself. Vcpkg now supports Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017 and can target dynamic or static libraries and platforms like x64,
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March 7, 2017Mar 7, 201703/7/17Visual Studio 2017 is a major leap forward in terms of C++ functionality compared with VS 2015. We hope the new release will delight you in your day-to-day job as soon as you can upgrade.
This blog post focuses on the steps needed to upgrade from Visual Studio 2015 to 2017.
February 14, 2017Feb 14, 201702/14/17Vcpkg simplifies acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows. Since our first release we have continually improved the tool by fixing issues and adding features. The latest version of the tool is 0.0.71, here is a summary of the changes in this version:
Add support for Visual Studio 2017
VS2017 detection
Fixed bootstrap.ps1 and VS2017 support
If both Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017 are installed,
November 1, 2016Nov 1, 201611/1/16One month ago, we announced the availability of Vcpkg a command line tool to easily acquire and build open source C++ lib and consume it in Visual Studio 2015. The initial release provided only dynamic link libraries, but we heard your feedback,
