Xrepo Virtual Environments

xrepo env gives you a virtual environment for native tools and libraries. You describe a set of packages, xrepo installs them, and then sets up PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and any package-specific env vars so those tools "just work" inside the env.

Think conda/venv, but for C/C++ dependencies and CLI tools (cmake, ninja, python, luajit, protoc, …), sourced from xmake-repo or any registered private repo.

There are three ways to use it, ordered from most ad-hoc to most persistent.

1. Ad-hoc environments (no config file)

Pass a comma-separated package list to -b/--bind and xrepo env auto-installs and activates them.

Interactive shell