Packaging binaries/applications as ports

[TheTollingBell]

I wanted to package Doxygen for use in my own project however I realized there is no real way to "provide" the executable to the end user. Is this intentional? Should I not be packaging tools using vcpkg and instead use something else? I came to vcpkg because conan is extremely bloated and hard to use but not being able to use tools would almost be enough to make me switch back.

[Neumann-A]

The main registry does not have rules for tools yet so you cannot have it here currently. However, you can have tool ports yourself and if you copy the tool into <vcpkg_installed>/tools/something find_program will be able to find it.

[TheTollingBell]

Thanks!