Vcpkg Installation¶

Finally, we need a C++ package manager to acquire and install third-party C++ libraries used by FLINT. Vcpkg maintains a catalog of more than 1,900 libraries that have been tested against Visual Studio 2019 and 2017, and builds these libraries during compilation to ensure compatibility with the FLINT source code. A fork of the original Vcpkg package has been created under moja global for the FLINT required libraries.

To build the libraries please follow the following steps:

Clone the Vcpkg repository: https://github.com/moja-global/vcpkg
Start a command shell in the Vcpkg repository folder and use the following commands:

# bootstrap
bootstrap-vcpkg.bat

# install packages
vcpkg.exe install boost-test:x64-windows boost-program-options:x64-windows boost-log:x64-windows turtle:x64-windows zipper:x64-windows poco:x64-windows libpq:x64-windows gdal:x64-windows sqlite3:x64-windows boost-ublas:x64-windows