{"id":4025,"date":"2017-12-06T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2017-12-06T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:24:07","slug":"pdan16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-pdan16\/","title":{"rendered":"Vcpkg: a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce the availability of Vcpkg on GitHub https:\/\/github.com\/Microsoft\/vcpkg . Vcpkg simplifies acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019ve 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce the availability of Vcpkg on GitHub https:\/\/github.com\/Microsoft\/vcpkg . Vcpkg simplifies acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows. 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We are delighted to announce the availability of Vcpkg on GitHub https:\/\/github.com\/Microsoft\/vcpkg . Vcpkg simplifies acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows. 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}