Microsoft has announced developers can
now access its C++ libraries on two new platforms. Vcpkg is now
available for Linux and macOS, joining its existing support for
Windows and UWP.
“At Microsoft, the core of our
vision is ‘Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform’ and we are
committed to bringing you the most productive development tools and
services to build your apps across all platforms,” the Visual C++
team wrote in a blog
post.
Vcpkg is an open-source VC++
packaging tool. It provides access to C and C++ libraries to its
supported platforms. The project was first announced at CppCon in
2016 to meet the needs of developers. “Acquiring native libraries
on Windows is a critical part of the application development process;
in our surveys, you told us that 80 percent of your C++ projects
depend on two or more libraries. Despite this, we’ve heard that the
current process for acquiring native libraries falls below C++
developers’ expectations when compared to other platforms such as
Mac (Homebrew) and Linux (apt-get, yum, etc.),” Microsoft said
at the time.
Since then, the tool has grown to more
than 900 libraries and features, with more than 350 libraries
available for Linux and Mac. Microsoft expects that number of grow
rapidly.
Vcpkg is built on a set of
principles that include: open-source tools, zero installation,
repeatable builds, customizable builds, open to contributions from
the community, and ports collection approach. More details are
available here.
Source :// sdtimes.com
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