vcpkg
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
4warn against
Jan 4, 2026first mention
May 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Never used this? https://vcpkg.io/en/”
“for me that should be something via vcpkg or conan”
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“If only they switched to vcpkg from the abomination which Craft manager is...”
former KDE contributoron “KDE onboarding is good now”
Caveats and dissent
“I have the same complaint about vcpkg.”
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“I have used vcpkg and conan extensively and have completely given up on them.”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
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- Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua 1 mention
Data: vcpkg.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“Although vcpkg is probably the most popular”
“Never used this? https://vcpkg.io/en/”
“for me that should be something via vcpkg or conan”
“I have the same complaint about vcpkg.”
“it is indeed more complex than fpm”
“I have used vcpkg and conan extensively and have completely given up on them.”
I use it for personal projects and I find it substantially easier to mess around with compiling shaders to SPIRV, processing assets, etc... But some of my gripes are, although it _is_ lua, there is some magic fuckery going on. When you specify targets, things for that target need to be close to the definition, and it feels very odd in a lua language to not have `target("name", function (ctx) ... end)`. Anyways, not g
“If only they switched to vcpkg from the abomination which Craft manager is...”