vcpkg search

Synopsis

vcpkg search [options] [query]

Description

Search for available packages by name and description.

Search performs a case-insensitive search through all available package names and descriptions. The results are displayed in a tabular format.

Example

$ vcpkg search zlib
miniz                    2.2.0#1          Single C source file zlib-replacement library
zlib                     1.2.12#1         A compression library
zlib-ng                  2.0.6            zlib replacement with optimizations for 'next generation' systems

Options

All vcpkg commands support a set of common options.

--x-full-desc

Note

This section covers an experimental feature of vcpkg which may change or be removed at any time.

Do not truncate long descriptions.

By default, long descriptions will be truncated to keep the tabular output browsable.