2018.11.21 10:18 "Re: [Tiff] vcpkg port for 4.0.10", by Roger Leigh

I can't claim credit for the original packaging work, just for updating it for 4.0.10 which was just a trivial tweak to the version+hash!

I had also been sitting on the sidelines; I have only been using it for a few weeks for GitLab CI testing, but so far with great success. It's still rough around the edges in some respects, but it does look like it will continue to mature and be a useful tool. For relatively simple packages like libtiff, it's already there, but could be enhanced to support the new compression codecs.

On 19/11/2018 15:21, Edward Lam wrote:

Thanks for doing this, Roger! I've been sitting on the sidelines waiting for vcpkg to mature since it looks very promising!

-Edward

On 11/15/2018 6:37 PM, Roger Leigh wrote:

Just as a point of interest for any developers on Windows. Microsoft's vcpkg repository (https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg) might be of use for simplifying building a collection of library dependencies for your projects, including libtiff. It's similar to the BSD ports collection, but it's all based around CMake scripts. So for libtiff, it just downloads the release and runs the cmake build.

Anyone can update it, though you do have to sign a CLA. This is the PR I opened for 4.0.10: https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg

Just clone the repository, run the bootstrap script, then

    vcpkg install tiff
or vcpkg install tiff:x64-windows

It's supposed to be cross-platform (for Linux and MacOS X at least), but it's a bit patchy for non-Windows platforms at present. Windows is always a pain, but this might make it a little easier (I replaced all my custom dependency management scripts with this).