msvc-pkg

🚀 msvc-pkg is a very lightweight build manager using MSVC or MSVC-like command line toolset for C/C++ open source libraries. There are more than 100+ open source libraries available on👝 packages folder. More libraries are comming. If you found the pacakge you want is not there, you can send an request.

What kinds of features?

• ⚓ msvc-pkg made you don't need to install Cygwin or MSYS2 to build autotools base project on Windows.
• 🏛️ msvc-pkg has rich colorful output during build and install procedure.
• 🏗️ msvc-pkg has seperate subprocess for bash and win32 environment to do a native build.
• 🏘️ msvc-pkg has implemented the missing features of libtool which can't set the naming style of static and shared libraries.
• 🥁 msvc-pkg has reduced the difficulty to build GNU Autotools base projects, e.g. 💘 gmp 💚, 💘 ncurses 💚 and so on.
• 🎹 msvc-pkg has made some patches for compile, ar-lib and so on wrapper from GNU, so that can build more GNU projects.
• 🏆 msvc-pkg build some libraries with its dependencies on steps if need.

Dependencies

• Visual C++ Build Tools and Windows 10/11 SDK
• Git for Windows
• Python 3
• CMake
• wget
• ninja
• meson
• yq
• Windows Terminal (Optional but recommend to have it)

Quick Start

For your first time to use msvc-pkg, you can do following steps first.

git clone https://github.com/jiangjianshan/msvc-pkg.git
cd msvc-pkg
bootstrap.bat

📝Please note that this🚂 bootstrap.bat will not only install those Dependencies above, but will also install some neccessary build essentials into Git for windows. So that msvc-pkg can build autotools base projects on Windows without install Cygwin or MSYS2.

Then, it is recommand to create a file settings.yaml and put it in the root folder of msvc-pkg. Below is an example for it. Because you may want some libraries install to your defined location.

# settings.yaml
# Those haven't been defined will be on default prefix, e.g. msvc-pkg\x64 or msvc-pkg\x86
prefix:
  x64:
    llvm-project: D:\LLVM
    lua: D:\Lua
    perl: D:\Perl
    ruby: D:\Ruby
    tcl: D:\Tcl
    tk: D:\Tcl
  x86:

📝Please notice that don't delete this🛠️ settings.yaml file because msvc-pkg will also store the installed information for packages in it. The command line tool🔨 mpt need it.

How to use

To use msvc-pkg is quick simple.

Example: build all available packages

rem build all available libraries on default host architecture
mpt

rem build and install all available libraries on x86 architecture
mpt x86

Example: build one and more available but not all packages

rem build gmp, gettext on default host architecture
mpt gmp gettext

Contributors

This project follows the all-contributors specification. 🚈 The goal is use MSVC and MSVC-like toolset to build as much as C/C++ open source librareis as possible. It is a ✨huge✨ job and full of 🎉challenge🎉. Contributions of any kind are welcome!