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Conan is probably the flagship C++ package manager and supports multiple build systems including cmake. Nuget/vcpkg is also usable but does not come with build

• invokestatic 6y ago
  Vcpkg has great CMake integration. Further, the model of Conan of distributing a bunch of binaries honestly seems like the wrong approach for C++ where you have to juggle all different sorts of compilers, triples, and ABIs. We use a completely custom toolchain which pretty much rules out Conan. The one annoying thing about vcpkg, though, is that all packages are described in the vcpkg source tree. There are no “repositories”. Customizing or adding custom packages requires using the somewhat annoying to use overlay system. I’d prefer some sort of hybrid between the two, with packages distributed as source code but pulled from a repository. I believe this is how Rust’s Cargo works.
  • dgellow 6y ago
    Just to add a small detail: vcpkg also has Visual Studio integration, not only CMake. And regarding repositories, since February 2021 vcpkg has an experimental support for them. You can read the spec here: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/docs/specifications/registries-2.md https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/docs/specific....