C++ Weekly - Ep 118 - Trying Out The vcpkg Package Manager

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[danielrhouck]

I'm pretty sure the reason to make the packages into system includes is that they aren't really part of *your* project. If they do generate warnings, you can't fix them (without either using a patched version, or submitting a patch upstream, or something).

[MattHurd]

Nice work. Please note getting the package managers to work with a source install of boost with c++17 and libc++ is a bit of a battle FWIW

[Qazqi]

I think that on Windows, the integrate part it wants you to run hooks things up with Visual Studio (and presumably Code) so that you can use the packages across any projects without messing with any include paths. That's a somewhat vague recollection, though, so it could be partly or fully wrong. Either way, I'm not sure how that applies to Linux.

[mloskot]

The user-wide integration relates only to MSBuild and does not affect CMake.
Link to docs about integration is missing from README.
vcpkg #3657 pull request has been submitted to add the link.

[danaadalaide]

Just a note, if you are using windows it installs the x86 libraries by default, so if you have a 64-bit build you should change it to 64-bit by adding the postfix :x64-windows

[sotosgamias]

i have a problem when i try to ./bootstrap-vcpkg.bat it brings me out 2 errors about the instance property inside the bootstrap script. Can anyone help me ?

[jpakkane]

You might consider testing Meson. It has fmtlib in wrapdb, and using it is fairly simple. Add the test file, do "mkdir subprojects; meson wrap install fmt" and then use it in the usual way with "fmt_dep = dependency('fmt', fallback : ['fmt', 'fmt_dep'])".

[sephirostoy]

Kinda strange that there's no direct integration within Visual Studio. It should be shipped as built-in package manager with some GUI.

[lisekSL]

That's M$ so to disalbe telemetric you can do:
./vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.sh -disableMetrics
VCPKG_DISABLE_METRICS=yes ./vcpkg/vcpkg install fmt
vcpkg --disable-metrics install fmt

[dibyojyotibhattacherjee]

Heyy, for someone trying to integrate a cpp package manager, which one do you recommend vcpkg or conan?

[helviohild]

some people don't speak English native, and music make hard to understand, thank you, for your job.