C++ package managers

From: Adam Getchell (acgetchell_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-05-05 21:25:57

For what it’s worth, having tried Biicode (Conan’s predecessor), Conan, Spack, Conda, and vcpkg, vcpkg is the only package manager for which I’ve been able to consistently (i.e. since I started using it a few years ago)  build combinations of {macOS, Linux, Windows } x { gcc, clang, msvc}.

As my research project includes CGAL which includes Boost, Eigen, and TBB, that ends up being 100+ libraries.

Manifest mode just works, and vcpkg artifacts looks promising:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/vcpkg-artifacts/

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Adam Getchell
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