vcpkg/docs/examples/packaging-github-repos.md
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## Packaging Github Repos Example: libogg
### Create the manifest file
The manifest file (called `vcpkg.json`) is a json file describing the package's metadata.
For libogg, we'll create the file `ports/libogg/vcpkg.json` with the following content:
```json
{
"name": "libogg",
"version-string": "1.3.3",
"description": "Ogg is a multimedia container format, and the native file and stream format for the Xiph.org multimedia codecs."
}
```
You can format the manifest file to our specifications with `vcpkg format-manifest ports/libogg/vcpkg.json`.
### Create the portfile
`portfile.cmake` describes how to build and install the package. First we download the project from Github with [`vcpkg_from_github`](../maintainers/vcpkg_from_github.md):
```cmake
vcpkg_from_github(
OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
REPO xiph/ogg
REF v1.3.3
SHA512 0bd6095d647530d4cb1f509eb5e99965a25cc3dd9b8125b93abd6b248255c890cf20710154bdec40568478eb5c4cde724abfb2eff1f3a04e63acef0fbbc9799b
HEAD_REF master
)
```
The important parts to update are `REPO` for the GitHub repository path, `REF` for a stable tag/commit to use, and `SHA512` with the checksum of the downloaded zipfile (you can get this easily by setting it to `1`, trying to install the package, and copying the checksum).
Finally, we configure the project with CMake, install the package, and copy over the license file:
```cmake
vcpkg_configure_cmake(
SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
PREFER_NINJA
)
vcpkg_install_cmake()
file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/libogg RENAME copyright)
```
Check the documentation for [`vcpkg_configure_cmake`](../maintainers/vcpkg_configure_cmake.md) and [`vcpkg_install_cmake`](../maintainers/vcpkg_install_cmake.md) if your package needs additional options.
Now you can run `vcpkg install libogg` to build and install the package.
### Suggested example portfiles
In the `ports/` directory are many libraries that can be used as examples, including many that are not based on CMake.
- Header only libraries
- rapidjson
- range-v3
- MSBuild-based
- cppunit
- mpg123
- Non-CMake, custom buildsystem
- openssl
- ffmpeg