NAME

       Alien::Build::Plugin::Probe::Vcpkg - Probe for system libraries using Vcpkg

VERSION

       version 2.80

SYNOPSIS

        use alienfile;

        plugin 'Probe::Vcpkg' => 'libffi';

DESCRIPTION

       This plugin probe can be used to find "system" packages using Microsoft's "Vcpkg" package
       manager for Visual C++ builds of Perl.  "Vcpkg" is a package manager for Visual C++ that
       includes a number of open source packages.  Although "Vcpkg" does also support Linux and
       macOS, this plugin does not support finding "Vcpkg" packages on those platforms.  For more
       details on "Vcpkg", see the project github page here:

       <https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg>

       Here is the quick start guide for getting Alien::Build to work with "Vpkg":

        # install Vcpkg
        C:\> git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
        C:\> cd vcpkg
        C:\vcpkg> .\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
        C:\vcpkg> .\vcpkg integrate install

        # update PATH to include the bin directory
        # so that .DLL files can be found by Perl
        C:\vcpkg> path c:\vcpkg\installed\x64-windows\bin;%PATH%

        # install the packages that you want
        C:\vcpkg> .\vcpkg install libffi

        # install the alien that uses it
        C:\vcpkg> cpanm Alien::FFI

       If you are using 32 bit build of Perl, then substitute "x86-windows" for "x64-windows".
       If you do not want to add the "bin" directory to the "PATH", then you can use
       "x64-windows-static" instead, which will provide static libraries.  (As of this writing
       static libraries for 32 bit Windows are not available).  The main downside to using
       "x64-windows-static" is that Aliens that require dynamic libraries for FFI will not be
       installable.

       If you do not want to install "Vcpkg" user wide (the "integrate install" command above),
       then you can use the "PERL_WIN32_VCPKG_ROOT" environment variable instead:

        # install Vcpkg
        C:\> git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
        C:\> cd vcpkg
        C:\vcpkg> .\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
        C:\vcpkg> set PERL_WIN32_VCPKG_ROOT=c:\vcpkg

PROPERTIES

   name
       Specifies the name of the Vcpkg.  This should not be used with the "lib" property below,
       choose only one.

       This is the default property, so these two are equivalent:

        plugin 'Probe::Vcpkg' => (name => 'foo');

       and

        plugin 'Probe::Vcpkg' => 'foo';

   lib
       Specifies the list of libraries that make up the Vcpkg.  This should not be used with the
       "name" property above, choose only one.  Note that using this detection method, the
       version number of the package will not be automatically determined (since multiple
       packages could potentially make up the list of libraries), so you need to determine the
       version number another way if you need it.

       This must be an array reference.  Do not include the ".lib" extension.

        plugin 'Probe::Vcpkg' => (lib => ['foo','bar']);

   ffi_name
       Specifies an alternate ffi_name for finding dynamic libraries.

SEE ALSO

       Alien::Build, alienfile, Alien::Build::MM, Alien

AUTHOR

       Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

       Contributors:

       Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)

       Roy Storey (KIWIROY)

       Ilya Pavlov

       David Mertens (run4flat)

       Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)

       Christian Walde (Mithaldu)

       Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)

       Zaki Mughal (zmughal)

       mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)

       Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)

       Flavio Poletti (polettix)

       Salvador Fandiño (salva)

       Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)

       Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)

       Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)

       Nicholas Shipp (nshp)

       Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)

       Joel Berger (JBERGER)

       Petr Písař (ppisar)

       Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

       Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)

       José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)

       Duke Leto (LETO)

       Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)

       Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)

       Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)

       Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)

       nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)

       Florian Weimer

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.