{"id":10435,"date":"2016-09-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/?p=10435"},"modified":"2022-08-11T20:58:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T20:58:07","slug":"vcpkg-a-tool-to-acquire-and-build-c-open-source-libraries-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/vcpkg-a-tool-to-acquire-and-build-c-open-source-libraries-on-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Vcpkg: a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/i>Content outdated<\/strong><\/p> For up-to-date documentation see vcpkg – Open source C\/C++ dependency manager from Microsoft<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/div>We are delighted to announce the availability of Vcpkg on GitHub https:\/\/github.com\/Microsoft\/vcpkg<\/a> . Vcpkg simplifies acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows.<\/p>\n

Acquiring native libraries on Windows is a critical part of the application development process; in our surveys, you told us that 80% of your C++ projects depend on two or more libraries. Despite this, we’ve heard that the current process for acquiring native libraries falls below C++ developers\u2019 expectations when compared to other platforms such as Mac (Homebrew) and Linux (apt-get, yum, etc.)<\/p>\n

After examining successes across all platforms, we’ve created Vcpkg with these set of principles:<\/p>\n