From https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg:

Initially launched in 2016 as a tool for assisting developers in migrating their projects to newer versions of Visual Studio, vcpkg has evolved into a cross-platform tool used by developers on Windows, macOS, and Linux. vcpkg has a large collection of open-source libraries and enterprise-ready features designed to facilitate your development process with support for any build and project systems. vcpkg is a C++ tool at heart and is written in C++ with scripts in CMake. It is designed from the ground up to address the unique pain points C/C++ developers experience.

See also Microsoft Learn vcpkg overview, Getting Started

Suggested in wolfssl #3226 and added in microsoft/vcpkg #24348.

From wolfSSL INSTALL:

  1. Building wolfssl - Using vcpkg

You can download and install wolfssl using the vcpkg at github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg

Before running the bootstrap-vcpkg.sh script below (which calls bootstrap.sh), note “vcpkg collects usage data”.

“You can opt-out of telemetry by re-running the bootstrap-vcpkg script with -disableMetrics”

Also: consider whether a system-wide install is desired. If not, do not run ./vcpkg integrate install or remove it using ./vcpkg integrate remove. Instead:

  • For cmake: cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=path/to/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake ..
  • For Visual Studio, configure the project to explicitly reference the vcpkg directory without relying on global integration.
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
cd vcpkg
./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh -disableMetrics
# OR for Windows
bootstrap-vcpkg.bat

./vcpkg integrate install
./vcpkg install wolfssl

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