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Does C++ have a package manager like npm, pip, gem, etc? [closed]

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Just wondering the best way to install cpp packages. My background is in JS/Ruby/etc, so it seems so weird there's no cpm or the like. What am I missing? I assume it's not this simple...

For an example, I can't even run a .cpp file with #include <iostream> as I get fatal error: 'iostream' file not found

Edit for clarity: iostream was a bad example, my system config was wonked back when I wrote this. Replace it in your imagination with a non-standard library.

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elzi Avatar asked Jan 09 '15 18:01

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There seem to be a few though I've never used them.

dds https://github.com/vector-of-bool/dds

cpm http://www.cpm.rocks/

conan https://conan.io/

pacm http://sourcey.com/pacm/

spack https://spack.io

buckaroo http://buckaroo.pm

hunter https://github.com/ruslo/hunter

vcpkg https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg

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user3071643 Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 12:09

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Conan is the clear winner today based on its 36+ GitHub contributors and the fact I found their Getting Started documentation to be easy enough to get working. It's MIT licensed too.

Conan's documentation even compares it to biicode which I was surprised wasn't mentioned in other answers, but biicode seems to be abandoned much like cpm.

pacm has some activity but is LGPL which may be an issue for some projects.

This builds on user3071643's answer, thanks!

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pzrq Avatar answered Sep 25 '22 12:09

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