What is Xrepo?
It is a cross-platform C/C++ package manager based on Xmake.
It is based on the runtime provided by xmake, but it is a complete and independent package management program. Compared with package managers such as vcpkg/homebrew, it can provide C/C++ packages for more platforms and architectures at the same time.
Xrepo is a tool in the Package Managers category of a tech stack.
Xrepo is an open source tool with 200 GitHub stars and 8 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Xrepo's open source repository on GitHub
Xrepo's Features
- Simple
- Lightweight
- Cross-platform
- Modern C/C++ package manager
- Supports distributed repositories
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