wxWidgets and vcpkg

Something that may have flown under your radar since its creation in 2016 is Microsoft’s vcpkg , “A C++ package manager for Windows, Linux and MacOS”. It’s been steadily improving since release, and while I’ve only used its Windows incarnation, I can attest that it brings the overhead of working with third-party C++ libraries down to almost nil. Set up with wxWidgets in 5 minutes Network and compiler speed depending. Prerequisites: Visual Studio on Windows, gcc on Linux or Clang on MacOS, Visual Studio Code