From 0ea03bbda18f073a8600504bac9d3a6cf8523e62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: FrankXie <v-frankxie@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:04:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add vcpkg installation instructions

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 README.md | 12 ++++++++++++
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@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ and copy parson.h and parson.c to you source code tree.
 
 Run ```make test``` to compile and run tests.
 
+Alternatively, you can build and install parson using [vcpkg](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/) dependency manager:
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
+cd vcpkg
+./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh # "./bootstrap-vcpkg.bat" for powershell
+./vcpkg integrate install
+./vcpkg install parson
+```
+
+The parson port in vcpkg is kept up to date by Microsoft team members and community contributors. If the version is out of date, please [create an issue or pull request](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg) on the vcpkg repository.
+
 ## Examples
 ### Parsing JSON
 Here is a function, which prints basic commit info (date, sha and author) from a github repository.