CppCon 2017: Scott Wardle “ EA’s Secret Weapon: Packages and Modules”

— Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: — A lot of people hate build systems. What if using a library was just as easy as header-only libraries? EA has had a Secret Weapon called “packages” for over 14 years. EA’s Packages are like Ruby’s Gems or Perl’s CPAN or Rust’s cargo. If you build a package from the package server it will download all of its dependencies. This talk will be about what we have le