How To: Statically Link C++ Libraries with vcpkg + Visual Studio 2019

Dealing with C++ libraries and statically linking them to your project can be an absolute pain to do manually. Luckily there are package managers like vcpkg that can make downloading and managing C++ dependencies a lot easier. Unfortunately, (or fortunately depending on your view) vcpkg works uses dynamic linking out of the box but static linking your libraries requires some leg work. I went through a lot of pain to figure out how to statically link packages with vcpkg and Visual Studio so I am writing this tutorial so you don’t have to go through the pain that I did. In this tutorial I will show you how to set up vcpkg and integrate it with your Visual Studio C++ project. Finally, I will walk through how to set up Visual Studio to use the static libraries downloaded by vcpkg so lets get started!

0. VCPKG Install and Setup

To start, make sure you have git and Visual Studio 2019 installed on your machine. Here you can download git and Visual Studio.

Next we are going to download vcpkg. To do this you will need to visit the vcpkg GitHub repository here. Once, there you will click on the green “Clone or download” button and copy the link that appears.

GitHub vcpkg

Now go back to your desktop and type:

Windows Key + R

and in the dialog box enter:

cmd

The Windows command prompt will load and you should see something like this:

Windows command prompt

In the command prompt enter git clone and the GitHub link you copied before and hit enter:

> git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git

Your output should look like this:

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How To: Statically Link C++ Libraries with vcpkg + Visual Studio 2019

Dealing with C++ libraries and statically linking them to your project can be an absolute pain to do manually. Luckily there are package managers like vcpkg that can make downloading and managing C++ dependencies a lot easier. Unfortunately, (or fortunately depending on your view) vcpkg works uses dynamic linking out of the box but static linking your libraries requires some leg work. I went through a lot of pain to figure out how to statically link packages with vcpkg and Visual Studio so I am writing this tutorial so you don’t have to go through the pain that I did. In this tutorial I will show you how to set up vcpkg and integrate it with your Visual Studio C++ project. Finally, I will walk through how to set up Visual Studio to use the static libraries downloaded by vcpkg so lets get started!

0. VCPKG Install and Setup

To start, make sure you have git and Visual Studio 2019 installed on your machine. Here you can download git and Visual Studio.

Next we are going to download vcpkg. To do this you will need to visit the vcpkg GitHub repository here. Once, there you will click on the green “Clone or download” button and copy the link that appears.

GitHub vcpkg

Now go back to your desktop and type:

Windows Key + R

and in the dialog box enter:

cmd

The Windows command prompt will load and you should see something like this:

Windows command prompt

In the command prompt enter git clone and the GitHub link you copied before and hit enter:

> git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git

Your output should look like this:

#software-development #microsoft #c-programming #programming #visual-studio #c++

Install Visual Studio 2019 Community – Best IDE for C#

In this article, I will show you how to install Visual Studio 2019 Community on to your machine to kickstart your development journey. Here is why everyone prefers Visual Studio over other IDEs – It’s a product from Microsoft who has built the .NET Framework, so obviously they know how to cater to the needs of the developers who use their framework.

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Level-up your C++ productivity using Visual Studio

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Visual Studio 2019 v16.7 Preview 2 Available Today!

C++ Updates

Visual Studio v16.7 Preview 2 delivers various improvements in the C++ space. Within the Connection Manager, you’re now able to edit remote SSH connections, e.g. if the IP address of your target system changes and needs to be updated. You’re also able to set default remote connections to be consumed via **${defaultRemoteMachineName} **in CMakeSettings.json and launch.vs.json.

When you edit a remote connection, Visual Studio will no longer need to recopy headers to Windows for a native IntelliSense experience. Likewise, setting default remote connections is useful for checking CMakeSettings.json and launch.vs.json into source control with no user or machine-specific information. These remote connections over SSH allow you to build and debug your C++ projects on a remote Linux system directly from Visual Studio.

C++ Add or Remove SSH Connections with Connection Manager

This release also brings enhanced IntelliSense support for Clang on Windows (clang-cl) in Visual Studio. The clang include path now includes the clang libraries, we’ve improved the display of in-editor squiggles (particularly when using the std library), and we’ve added support for C++2a is supported in clang mode.

The Preview release also contains four new code analysis rules to incorporate additional safety features into C++: C26817, C26818, C26819, and C26820. Please see the C++ Team Blog for more info.

In addition, new C++20 Standard Library features have been implemented. A detailed list is provided in the STL Changelog on GitHub.

.NET Productivity

Quick Info now displays the diagnostic ID along with a help link where you can easily navigate to our documentation to learn more about warnings and errors in your code.

Diagnostic ID with help links in .NET Productivity

Git Productivity

We continue to release more Git functionality in Visual Studio 2019. This time we focus on merge conflict resolution. We’ve revamped the Visual Studio merge editor by decoupling it from TFVC and focusing it on Git.

A new gold info bar at the top of a file will tell you when there are merge conflicts that need to be manually resolved. Clicking will take you to the merge editor, which now has more informative tiles and captions to help you distinguish between the conflicting branches. We’ve reduced the clutter around the zoom margin, health margin, and the toolbar. In addition, it is easier to parse conflicts with aligned matching lines, word level differences, and visible whitespace when it is the only difference. You can turn off non-conflicting differences to just focus on the conflicts. You can also resolve add/add conflicts at the file level now with a two-way merge. Finally, we have added a checkbox to resolve all conflicts on one side or the other with a single click.

Try the new features by toggling the Preview Feature for New Git user experience in Tools > Options.

Improved Git Functionality in Visual Studio 2019 under the Tools Menu

In other Git improvements, we will now close any open folders or solutions before starting a new clone operation, so that Visual Studio can open the newly cloned repo to help you get to your code faster. We’ve improved upon the commit text box, adding inline error checking. And we’ve added UI to help you more clearly understand what is happening when you initialize and push a repository to a remote host like GitHub or Azure Repos.

Local Process with Kubernetes

Local Process with Kubernetes allows you to write, test and debug your .NET code on your development workstation while connected to your Kubernetes cluster with the rest of your application or services. By connecting your development workstation to your cluster, you eliminate the need to manually run and configure dependent services on your development machine. Environment variables, connection strings and volumes from the cluster are available to your microservice code running locally.

For more information on Local Process with Kubernetes, we have detailed it out in our team blog.

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