vcpkg/docs

Quick Start

The latest version of this documentation is available on GitHub.

Vcpkg helps you manage C and C++ libraries on Windows, Linux and MacOS. This tool and ecosystem are constantly evolving; your involvement is vital to its success!

Examples

• Installing and Using Packages Example: sqlite
• Packaging Zipfiles Example: zlib
• Packaging GitHub Repositories Example: libogg
• Patching Example: Patching libpng to work for x86-uwp
• Getting Started with Versioning

User Help

• Integration with build systems
• Triplet files
• Configuration and Environment
• Manifests
• Binary Caching
• Versioning
• Usage with Android
• Host Dependencies

Maintainer Help

• Manifest files - vcpkg.json
• Control files
• Portfile functions
• Maintainer Guidelines

Vcpkg-Tool Maintainer Help

• Testing
• Benchmarking
• Layout of the vcpkg source tree

Community Resources (not directly affiliated with vcpkg)

• vcpkg.info - Package index + search
• vcpkgx - Package index + search

Specifications

• Export
• Feature Packages

Blog posts

• Announcing a single C++ library manager for Linux, macOS and Windows: Vcpkg
• Vcpkg: Using multiple enlistments to handle multiple versions of a library
• Vcpkg: introducing the export command
• Binary Compatibility and Pain-free Upgrade Why Moving to Visual Studio 2017 is almost "too easy"
• Vcpkg recent enhancements
• Vcpkg 3 Months Anniversary, Survey
• Vcpkg updates: Static linking is now available
• Vcpkg: a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows

Other

• FAQ
• Privacy