vcpkg/docs/index.md

Quick Start

Vcpkg helps you manage C and C++ libraries on Windows, Linux and MacOS. This tool and ecosystem are constantly evolving; your involvement are 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

User Help

• Integration with build systems
• Triplet files
• Configuration and Environment
• Usage with Android
• Using a manifest file to declare your dependencies

Maintainer help

• Control files - in general, one should use manifest files instead
• Manifest files
• Portfile functions
• Maintainer Guidelines

Tool Maintainer Help

• Testing
• Benchmarking
• Layout of the vcpkg source tree
• Maintainer Guidelines

Community Resources (not directly affiliated with vcpkg)

• vcpkg.info - Package index + search (includes older port versions)
• 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