Exploring vcpkg Packages with vcpkg.link

While browsing Reddit, I ran into the following post that was asking if other vcpkg browser were available besides vcpkg.io.

Working myself on Offlands, which heavily use vcpkg to integrate all the necessary third-party libraries, I often ran into the need of quickly getting information about a given package.

Since existings solutions did not provide much detail compared to comparable online package explorers such as npmjs.com or crates.io, I decided to create my own platform available at vcpkg.link.

The key available features include:

• Fast search across available packages and features
• Collection of recently added packages
• Collection of recently changed packages
• Collection of popular packages
• List of the features exposed by packages including the required version
• Overview of supported packages by platform
• History of all packages published versions
• List of required dependencies for each package

All updates of the project are available in its changelog.