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# Package Management

Xmake provides a powerful package management system that allows you to easily install and use third-party libraries.

For more detailed documentation, please refer to [Add Packages](/guide/project-configuration/add-packages).

For detailed package management tutorials, see [Using Official Packages](/guide/package-management/using-official-packages). For package description APIs, see [Package Dependencies API](/api/description/package-dependencies).

## Use Fmt

## Use Boost

## Use OpenSSL

## Specify Version

We can also specify the version of the package we want to use. By default, xmake uses the latest available version of a package. You can specify a semantic version constraint to require a specific version.

## Use Shared Library

We can also configure the package to use shared libraries. Some packages support building as shared libraries. You can enable this by passing `{configs = {shared = true}}` to `add_requires`.