Windows integration [was: Re: There really needs to be some moderation]

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 22 June 2017 at 05:59:05 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:47:48 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> [snip]
>> Windows has been a bit of a pain, but mostly from the native 
>> code library side.  It should be easy to install google snappy 
>> right?  On Linux it is.  On Windows, not so much...  And 
>> that's just one library.
>
> vcpkg is making it pretty easy to get C and C++ libraries on 
> Windows. Snappy is supported.
>
> https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg

+1

Every library I care about is available through vcpkg. And it's 
much cleaner to use, IMO, than NuGet or Chocolatey.