diff --git a/ports/alembic/CONTROL b/ports/alembic/CONTROL
index a1a47a3ff..a705d3f2c 100644
--- a/ports/alembic/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/alembic/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: alembic
-Version: 1.7.11-2
+Version: 1.7.11-3
 Build-Depends: ilmbase, hdf5
 Description: Alembic is an open framework for storing and sharing scene data that includes a C++ library, a file format, and client plugins and applications.
 Homepage: https://alembic.io/
diff --git a/ports/alembic/portfile.cmake b/ports/alembic/portfile.cmake
index 8b3e8568d..b26f07ef8 100644
--- a/ports/alembic/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/alembic/portfile.cmake
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
     -DUSE_HDF5=ON
     -DHDF5_ROOT=${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}
diff --git a/ports/ampl-mp/CONTROL b/ports/ampl-mp/CONTROL
index 84523e281..d45564c4f 100644
--- a/ports/ampl-mp/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/ampl-mp/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: ampl-mp
-Version: 2019-03-21
+Version: 2019-03-21-1
 Description: An open-source library for mathematical programming
diff --git a/ports/ampl-mp/portfile.cmake b/ports/ampl-mp/portfile.cmake
index dafdb10fd..00d577e56 100644
--- a/ports/ampl-mp/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/ampl-mp/portfile.cmake
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
     -DBUILD=asl
     -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF
diff --git a/ports/anax/CONTROL b/ports/anax/CONTROL
index 14b10c9af..a672637cf 100644
--- a/ports/anax/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/anax/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: anax
-Version: 2.1.0-5
+Version: 2.1.0-6
 Description: An open source C++ entity system.
 Homepage: https://github.com/miguelmartin75/anax
diff --git a/ports/anax/portfile.cmake b/ports/anax/portfile.cmake
index 346e45edb..bdecbf39e 100644
--- a/ports/anax/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/anax/portfile.cmake
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     DISABLE_PARALLEL_CONFIGURE
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/apr/CONTROL b/ports/apr/CONTROL
index 7a35c5b48..41c7c453a 100644
--- a/ports/apr/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/apr/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: apr
-Version: 1.6.5-1
+Version: 1.6.5-2
 Homepage: https://apr.apache.org/
 Description: The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a C library that forms a system portability layer that covers many operating systems.
 
diff --git a/ports/apr/portfile.cmake b/ports/apr/portfile.cmake
index 1e9de7ffb..6ef062bf3 100644
--- a/ports/apr/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/apr/portfile.cmake
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ endif()
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DINSTALL_PDB=OFF
         -DMIN_WINDOWS_VER=Windows7
diff --git a/ports/azure-storage-cpp/CONTROL b/ports/azure-storage-cpp/CONTROL
index 91c155f00..563c3d15f 100644
--- a/ports/azure-storage-cpp/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/azure-storage-cpp/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: azure-storage-cpp
-Version: 6.1.0-1
+Version: 6.1.0-2
 Build-Depends: cpprestsdk[core], atlmfc (windows), boost-log (!windows&!uwp), boost-locale (!windows&!uwp), libxml2 (!windows&!uwp), libuuid (!windows&!uwp&!osx), gettext
 Description: Microsoft Azure Storage Client SDK for C++
   A client library for working with Microsoft Azure storage services including blobs, files, tables, and queues. This client library enables working with the Microsoft Azure storage services which include the blob service for storing binary and text data, the file service for storing binary and text data, the table service for storing structured non-relational data, and the queue service for storing messages that may be accessed by a client.
diff --git a/ports/azure-storage-cpp/portfile.cmake b/ports/azure-storage-cpp/portfile.cmake
index c0909bff3..b558fa51d 100644
--- a/ports/azure-storage-cpp/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/azure-storage-cpp/portfile.cmake
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DCMAKE_FIND_FRAMEWORK=LAST
         -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF
diff --git a/ports/basisu/CONTROL b/ports/basisu/CONTROL
index f514dbf25..f31edab07 100644
--- a/ports/basisu/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/basisu/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: basisu
-Version: 0.0.1
+Version: 0.0.1-1
 Homepage: https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal
 Description: Basis Universal is a supercompressed GPU texture and video compression format that outputs a highly compressed intermediate file format (.basis) that can be quickly transcoded to a wide variety of GPU texture compression formats. 
 Build-Depends: lodepng
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ports/basisu/portfile.cmake b/ports/basisu/portfile.cmake
index 02956b584..7882f0d22 100644
--- a/ports/basisu/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/basisu/portfile.cmake
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/blosc/CONTROL b/ports/blosc/CONTROL
index 4dc7bf81f..f2558ab41 100644
--- a/ports/blosc/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/blosc/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: blosc
-Version: 1.16.3-1
+Version: 1.16.3-2
 Build-Depends: lz4, snappy, zlib, zstd
 Homepage: https://github.com/Blosc/c-blosc
 Description: A blocking, shuffling and loss-less compression library that can be faster than `memcpy()`
diff --git a/ports/blosc/portfile.cmake b/ports/blosc/portfile.cmake
index 367c59194..c8fad02b2 100644
--- a/ports/blosc/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/blosc/portfile.cmake
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ file(REMOVE_RECURSE ${SOURCE_PATH}/internal-complibs)
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS -DPREFER_EXTERNAL_LZ4=ON
             -DPREFER_EXTERNAL_SNAPPY=ON
             -DPREFER_EXTERNAL_ZLIB=ON
diff --git a/ports/bullet3/CONTROL b/ports/bullet3/CONTROL
index 512b5d527..d313255a5 100644
--- a/ports/bullet3/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/bullet3/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: bullet3
-Version: 2.88
+Version: 2.88-1
 Homepage: https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3
 Description: Bullet Physics is a professional collision detection, rigid body, and soft body dynamics library
 
diff --git a/ports/bullet3/portfile.cmake b/ports/bullet3/portfile.cmake
index fc3e7bc34..031ddf23f 100644
--- a/ports/bullet3/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/bullet3/portfile.cmake
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ endif()
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DUSE_MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY_DLL=ON
         -DBUILD_DEMOS=OFF
diff --git a/ports/capnproto/CONTROL b/ports/capnproto/CONTROL
index 694469b1f..02cc080f1 100644
--- a/ports/capnproto/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/capnproto/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: capnproto
-Version: 0.7.0-2
+Version: 0.7.0-3
 Description: Data interchange format and capability-based RPC system
 Homepage: https://capnproto.org/
 Build-Depends: zlib
diff --git a/ports/capnproto/portfile.cmake b/ports/capnproto/portfile.cmake
index 5c189acc7..4e149a035 100644
--- a/ports/capnproto/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/capnproto/portfile.cmake
@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 	PATCHES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/0001-fix-capnpc-extension-handling-on-Windows.patch"
 )
 
-vcpkg_configure_cmake(SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH})
+vcpkg_configure_cmake(
+    SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
+)
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
 
diff --git a/ports/cgicc/CONTROL b/ports/cgicc/CONTROL
index 9e18277a9..1e3716e0e 100644
--- a/ports/cgicc/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/cgicc/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: cgicc
-Version: 3.2.19-1
+Version: 3.2.19-2
 Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/cgicc/
 Description: GNU Cgicc is an ANSI C++ compliant class library that greatly simplifies the creation of CGI applications for the World Wide Web
diff --git a/ports/cgicc/portfile.cmake b/ports/cgicc/portfile.cmake
index 58a970877..24447e884 100644
--- a/ports/cgicc/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/cgicc/portfile.cmake
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH})
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
   SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+  PREFER_NINJA
   OPTIONS_DEBUG -DDISABLE_INSTALL_HEADERS=ON -DDISABLE_INSTALL_TOOLS=ON
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/charls/CONTROL b/ports/charls/CONTROL
index 00f6777a4..e8fabbf22 100644
--- a/ports/charls/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/charls/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: charls
-Version: 2.0.0-1
+Version: 2.0.0-2
 Homepage: https://github.com/team-charls/charls
 Description: CharLS, a C++ JPEG-LS library implementation.
diff --git a/ports/charls/portfile.cmake b/ports/charls/portfile.cmake
index 69726f1c3..0f622c7e3 100644
--- a/ports/charls/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/charls/portfile.cmake
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ vcpkg_apply_patches(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/collada-dom/CONTROL b/ports/collada-dom/CONTROL
index 952f4ae50..31ded7253 100644
--- a/ports/collada-dom/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/collada-dom/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: collada-dom
-Version: 2.5.0-1
+Version: 2.5.0-2
 Description: The COLLADA Document Object Model (DOM) is an application programming interface (API) that provides a C++ object representation of a COLLADA XML instance document.
 Build-Depends: zlib, libxml2, minizip, pcre, uriparser, boost-filesystem, boost-system
diff --git a/ports/collada-dom/portfile.cmake b/ports/collada-dom/portfile.cmake
index f36d8e4a9..20ee9fffa 100644
--- a/ports/collada-dom/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/collada-dom/portfile.cmake
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/ctemplate/CONTROL b/ports/ctemplate/CONTROL
index d5fadf3ea..00abc1f96 100644
--- a/ports/ctemplate/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/ctemplate/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: ctemplate
-Version:  2017-06-23-44b7c5-3
+Version:  2017-06-23-44b7c5-4
 Homepage: https://github.com/OlafvdSpek/ctemplate
 Description: C++ CTemplate system
diff --git a/ports/ctemplate/portfile.cmake b/ports/ctemplate/portfile.cmake
index d22c3afa4..d5d8b3960 100644
--- a/ports/ctemplate/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/ctemplate/portfile.cmake
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ vcpkg_find_acquire_program(PYTHON3)
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
   SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+  PREFER_NINJA
   OPTIONS -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=${PYTHON3}
   OPTIONS_DEBUG -DDISABLE_INSTALL_HEADERS=ON
 )
diff --git a/ports/dlfcn-win32/CONTROL b/ports/dlfcn-win32/CONTROL
index 24af3631f..453ecf9e4 100644
--- a/ports/dlfcn-win32/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/dlfcn-win32/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: dlfcn-win32
-Version: 1.1.1-1
+Version: 1.1.1-2
 Homepage: https://github.com/dlfcn-win32/dlfcn-win32
 Description: dlfcn-win32 is an implementation of dlfcn for Windows.
diff --git a/ports/dlfcn-win32/portfile.cmake b/ports/dlfcn-win32/portfile.cmake
index 77fd87b12..d67fb00fe 100644
--- a/ports/dlfcn-win32/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/dlfcn-win32/portfile.cmake
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/duktape/CONTROL b/ports/duktape/CONTROL
index 5f212d705..08c822fad 100644
--- a/ports/duktape/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/duktape/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: duktape
-Version: 2.3.0-1
+Version: 2.3.0-2
 Homepage: https://github.com/svaarala/duktape
 Description: Embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint.
 Build-Depends:
diff --git a/ports/duktape/portfile.cmake b/ports/duktape/portfile.cmake
index e15ca137b..fe2c9a494 100644
--- a/ports/duktape/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/duktape/portfile.cmake
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ vcpkg_apply_patches(
 )
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
+    PREFER_NINJA
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/easyloggingpp/CONTROL b/ports/easyloggingpp/CONTROL
index 9e2427ff9..a10dbb2d6 100644
--- a/ports/easyloggingpp/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/easyloggingpp/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: easyloggingpp
-Version: 9.96.7
+Version: 9.96.7-1
 Description: Easylogging++ is a single header efficient logging library for C++ applications.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ports/easyloggingpp/portfile.cmake b/ports/easyloggingpp/portfile.cmake
index 8294e0a81..56ba406b7 100644
--- a/ports/easyloggingpp/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/easyloggingpp/portfile.cmake
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -Dbuild_static_lib=ON
 )
diff --git a/ports/ecm/CONTROL b/ports/ecm/CONTROL
index 05595fcfe..4f98c2290 100644
--- a/ports/ecm/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/ecm/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: ecm
-Version: 5.60.0
+Version: 5.60.0-1
 Homepage: https://github.com/KDE/extra-cmake-modules
 Description: Extra CMake Modules (ECM), extra modules and scripts for CMake
diff --git a/ports/ecm/portfile.cmake b/ports/ecm/portfile.cmake
index 14419c174..ab92b3086 100644
--- a/ports/ecm/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/ecm/portfile.cmake
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS -DBUILD_HTML_DOCS=OFF
             -DBUILD_MAN_DOCS=OFF
             -DBUILD_QTHELP_DOCS=OFF
diff --git a/ports/fastfeat/CONTROL b/ports/fastfeat/CONTROL
index ff76128fc..934993034 100644
--- a/ports/fastfeat/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/fastfeat/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: fastfeat
-Version: 391d5e9
+Version: 391d5e9-1
 Description: FAST feature detectors in C
diff --git a/ports/fastfeat/portfile.cmake b/ports/fastfeat/portfile.cmake
index 95d178ea4..7fd35b9f8 100644
--- a/ports/fastfeat/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/fastfeat/portfile.cmake
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH}
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS_DEBUG
         -DDISABLE_INSTALL_HEADERS=ON
 )
diff --git a/ports/fastlz/CONTROL b/ports/fastlz/CONTROL
index 4154ea953..98b53557e 100644
--- a/ports/fastlz/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/fastlz/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: fastlz
-Version: 1.0-2
+Version: 1.0-3
 Homepage: https://github.com/ariya/FastLZ
 Description: A lightning-fast lossless compression library
diff --git a/ports/fastlz/portfile.cmake b/ports/fastlz/portfile.cmake
index 857dd7d0b..38c71aade 100644
--- a/ports/fastlz/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/fastlz/portfile.cmake
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH})
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/freeglut/CONTROL b/ports/freeglut/CONTROL
index 1ee44b7f3..7489109c4 100644
--- a/ports/freeglut/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/freeglut/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: freeglut
-Version: 3.0.0-6
+Version: 3.0.0-7
 Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeglut/
 Description: Open source implementation of GLUT with source and binary backwards compatibility.
diff --git a/ports/freeglut/portfile.cmake b/ports/freeglut/portfile.cmake
index 86d691593..ab95e3165 100644
--- a/ports/freeglut/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/freeglut/portfile.cmake
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ file(WRITE ${SOURCE_PATH}/include/GL/freeglut_std.h "${FREEGLUT_STDH}")
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DFREEGLUT_BUILD_STATIC_LIBS=${FREEGLUT_STATIC}
         -DFREEGLUT_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=${FREEGLUT_DYNAMIC}
diff --git a/ports/gherkin-c/CONTROL b/ports/gherkin-c/CONTROL
index 3ded48444..e1533180f 100644
--- a/ports/gherkin-c/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/gherkin-c/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: gherkin-c
-Version: 2019-10-07
+Version: 2019-10-07-1
 Description: Gherkin parser/compiler in C 
diff --git a/ports/gherkin-c/portfile.cmake b/ports/gherkin-c/portfile.cmake
index 04e104235..adb13076d 100644
--- a/ports/gherkin-c/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/gherkin-c/portfile.cmake
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS 
         -DBUILD_GHERKIN_TESTS=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/gl2ps/CONTROL b/ports/gl2ps/CONTROL
index b4721a113..deb9483aa 100644
--- a/ports/gl2ps/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/gl2ps/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: gl2ps
-Version: 1.4.0-2
+Version: 1.4.0-3
 Homepage: https://gitlab.onelab.info/gl2ps/gl2ps
 Description: OpenGL to PostScript Printing Library
 Build-Depends: freeglut, zlib, libpng
diff --git a/ports/gl2ps/portfile.cmake b/ports/gl2ps/portfile.cmake
index c1568b443..eaee56270 100644
--- a/ports/gl2ps/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/gl2ps/portfile.cmake
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ vcpkg_from_gitlab(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS_DEBUG -DDISABLE_INSTALL_HEADERS=ON
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/glbinding/CONTROL b/ports/glbinding/CONTROL
index 016283ca9..5bef7210a 100644
--- a/ports/glbinding/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/glbinding/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: glbinding
-Version: 3.1.0-1
+Version: 3.1.0-2
 Description: glbinding is an MIT licensed, cross-platform C++ binding for the OpenGL API
 Homepage: https://github.com/cginternals/glbinding
 Build-Depends: egl-registry
diff --git a/ports/glbinding/portfile.cmake b/ports/glbinding/portfile.cmake
index d9fb5c0b2..863426282 100644
--- a/ports/glbinding/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/glbinding/portfile.cmake
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DOPTION_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
         -DOPTION_BUILD_GPU_TESTS=OFF
diff --git a/ports/glew/CONTROL b/ports/glew/CONTROL
index 8d336de5a..41df4d08c 100644
--- a/ports/glew/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/glew/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: glew
-Version: 2.1.0-4
+Version: 2.1.0-5
 Description: The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW) is a cross-platform open-source C/C++ extension loading library.
 Homepage: https://github.com/nigels-com/glew
diff --git a/ports/glew/portfile.cmake b/ports/glew/portfile.cmake
index 2637b2091..818ee52ea 100644
--- a/ports/glew/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/glew/portfile.cmake
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ vcpkg_extract_source_archive_ex(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}/build/cmake
+    PREFER_NINJA
     DISABLE_PARALLEL_CONFIGURE
     OPTIONS
         -DBUILD_UTILS=OFF
diff --git a/ports/glfw3/CONTROL b/ports/glfw3/CONTROL
index 361820820..6cbc41564 100644
--- a/ports/glfw3/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/glfw3/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: glfw3
-Version: 3.3
+Version: 3.3-1
 Homepage: https://github.com/glfw/glfw
 Description: GLFW is a free, Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan application development. It provides a simple, platform-independent API for creating windows, contexts and surfaces, reading input, handling events, etc.
diff --git a/ports/glfw3/portfile.cmake b/ports/glfw3/portfile.cmake
index ea3e4eaec..c8948628f 100644
--- a/ports/glfw3/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/glfw3/portfile.cmake
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ endif()
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DGLFW_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF
         -DGLFW_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
diff --git a/ports/graphicsmagick/CONTROL b/ports/graphicsmagick/CONTROL
index 631fd52f3..350ccd178 100644
--- a/ports/graphicsmagick/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/graphicsmagick/CONTROL
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Source: graphicsmagick
 Maintainer: josuegomes@gmail.com
-Version: 1.3.32
+Version: 1.3.32-1
 Build-Depends: zlib, bzip2, freetype, libjpeg-turbo, libpng, tiff
 Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/graphicsmagick/
 Description: Image processing library
diff --git a/ports/graphicsmagick/portfile.cmake b/ports/graphicsmagick/portfile.cmake
index b976bfbee..1764b30e7 100644
--- a/ports/graphicsmagick/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/graphicsmagick/portfile.cmake
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/magick_types.h DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH}/ma
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS_DEBUG
         -DINSTALL_HEADERS=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/hypre/CONTROL b/ports/hypre/CONTROL
index 907e64b87..6151eca3b 100644
--- a/ports/hypre/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/hypre/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: hypre
-Version: 2.11.2-1
+Version: 2.11.2-2
 Homepage: https://computation.llnl.gov/projects/hypre-scalable-linear-solvers-multigrid-methods
 Description: SCALABLE LINEAR SOLVERS AND MULTIGRID METHODS
 Build-Depends: msmpi
diff --git a/ports/hypre/portfile.cmake b/ports/hypre/portfile.cmake
index a0b38216e..f8ab07b9d 100644
--- a/ports/hypre/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/hypre/portfile.cmake
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ endif()
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         ${OPTIONS}
     OPTIONS_RELEASE
diff --git a/ports/jack2/CONTROL b/ports/jack2/CONTROL
index d665dbe24..fb3fed91f 100644
--- a/ports/jack2/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/jack2/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: jack2
-Version: 1.9.12-1
+Version: 1.9.12-2
 Homepage: https://github.com/jackaudio/jack2
 Description: Cross-platform API that enables device sharing and inter-application audio routing
 
diff --git a/ports/jack2/portfile.cmake b/ports/jack2/portfile.cmake
index f7109aafd..3cb59189e 100644
--- a/ports/jack2/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/jack2/portfile.cmake
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH})
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/jxrlib/CONTROL b/ports/jxrlib/CONTROL
index f104c4c84..8ed2805a4 100644
--- a/ports/jxrlib/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/jxrlib/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: jxrlib
-Version: 1.1-7
+Version: 1.1-8
 Homepage: https://github.com/4creators/jxrlib
 Description: Open source implementation of the jpegxr image format standard.
diff --git a/ports/jxrlib/portfile.cmake b/ports/jxrlib/portfile.cmake
index 43358fa15..76b0f61fa 100644
--- a/ports/jxrlib/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/jxrlib/portfile.cmake
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ endif()
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/kangaru/CONTROL b/ports/kangaru/CONTROL
index 6990d5190..81289a286 100644
--- a/ports/kangaru/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/kangaru/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: kangaru
-Version: 4.1.3-1
+Version: 4.1.3-2
 Description: A dependency injection container for C++11, C++14 and later
diff --git a/ports/kangaru/portfile.cmake b/ports/kangaru/portfile.cmake
index 15af5ded0..cc49b6669 100644
--- a/ports/kangaru/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/kangaru/portfile.cmake
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS -DKANGARU_EXPORT=Off -DKANGARU_TEST=Off
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/leaf/CONTROL b/ports/leaf/CONTROL
index 27db9dc33..d85d93d9a 100644
--- a/ports/leaf/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/leaf/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: leaf
-Version: 0.2.1-1
+Version: 0.2.1-2
 Description: Lightweight error augmentation framework 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ports/leaf/portfile.cmake b/ports/leaf/portfile.cmake
index 64d6ae50e..1ff5e1e53 100644
--- a/ports/leaf/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/leaf/portfile.cmake
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/libconfig/CONTROL b/ports/libconfig/CONTROL
index 8b64a280e..3cbedcf5c 100644
--- a/ports/libconfig/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libconfig/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: libconfig
-Version: 1.7.2
+Version: 1.7.2-1
 Homepage: https://github.com/hyperrealm/libconfig
 Description: C/C++ library for processing configuration files
diff --git a/ports/libconfig/portfile.cmake b/ports/libconfig/portfile.cmake
index 9456636a9..a3958d342 100644
--- a/ports/libconfig/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libconfig/portfile.cmake
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH})
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
   SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+  PREFER_NINJA
   OPTIONS_DEBUG -DDISABLE_INSTALL_HEADERS=ON
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/libfreenect2/CONTROL b/ports/libfreenect2/CONTROL
index bb0b63871..6734e25cc 100644
--- a/ports/libfreenect2/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libfreenect2/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: libfreenect2
-Version: 0.2.0-2
+Version: 0.2.0-3
 Build-Depends: libusb, libjpeg-turbo
 Homepage: https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect2
 Description: Open source drivers for the Kinect for Windows v2 device
diff --git a/ports/libfreenect2/portfile.cmake b/ports/libfreenect2/portfile.cmake
index 839c7073e..9ca8867fb 100644
--- a/ports/libfreenect2/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libfreenect2/portfile.cmake
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ file(WRITE ${SOURCE_PATH}/examples/CMakeLists.txt "${EXAMPLECMAKE}")
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DENABLE_CUDA=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/libmad/CONTROL b/ports/libmad/CONTROL
index ae26eebab..e3adc42be 100644
--- a/ports/libmad/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libmad/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: libmad
-Version: 0.15.1-2
+Version: 0.15.1-3
 Description: high-quality MPEG audio decoder
diff --git a/ports/libmad/portfile.cmake b/ports/libmad/portfile.cmake
index cc5027963..9c1f43b56 100644
--- a/ports/libmad/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libmad/portfile.cmake
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ file(COPY ${SOURCE_PATH}/msvc++/mad.h DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH})
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/libmariadb/CONTROL b/ports/libmariadb/CONTROL
index 887a52ed0..0e3327bb4 100644
--- a/ports/libmariadb/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libmariadb/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: libmariadb
-Version: 3.0.10-2
+Version: 3.0.10-3
 Homepage: https://github.com/MariaDB/mariadb-connector-c
 Description: MariaDB Connector/C is used to connect C/C++ applications to MariaDB and MySQL databases
diff --git a/ports/libmariadb/portfile.cmake b/ports/libmariadb/portfile.cmake
index 5fab1502c..ebf8b9f24 100644
--- a/ports/libmariadb/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libmariadb/portfile.cmake
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DWITH_UNITTEST=OFF
         -DWITH_SSL=OFF
diff --git a/ports/libmspack/CONTROL b/ports/libmspack/CONTROL
index de476a430..c81f19005 100644
--- a/ports/libmspack/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libmspack/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: libmspack
-Version: 0.10.1
+Version: 0.10.1-1
 Build-Depends:
 Homepage: https://www.cabextract.org.uk/libmspack
 Description: libmspack is a portable library for some loosely related Microsoft compression formats.
diff --git a/ports/libmspack/portfile.cmake b/ports/libmspack/portfile.cmake
index 759f01724..b476ad9a6 100644
--- a/ports/libmspack/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libmspack/portfile.cmake
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/libmspack.def DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH})
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/libnice/CONTROL b/ports/libnice/CONTROL
index 2d542c41d..8f79f6b0a 100644
--- a/ports/libnice/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libnice/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: libnice
-Version: 0.1.15
+Version: 0.1.15-1
 Homepage: https://nice.freedesktop.org
 Description: Libnice is an implementation of the IETF's Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) standard (RFC 5245) and the Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) standard (RFC 5389).
 Build-Depends: glib, openssl
diff --git a/ports/libnice/portfile.cmake b/ports/libnice/portfile.cmake
index 2c0f87afe..14fb0d646 100644
--- a/ports/libnice/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libnice/portfile.cmake
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH})
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS_RELEASE -DOPTIMIZE=1
     OPTIONS_DEBUG -DDEBUGGABLE=1
 )
diff --git a/ports/libodb-boost/CONTROL b/ports/libodb-boost/CONTROL
index 24f7d18b9..3dec84103 100644
--- a/ports/libodb-boost/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libodb-boost/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: libodb-boost
-Version: 2.4.0-2
+Version: 2.4.0-3
 Description: Description: Boost support for the ODB ORM library
 Build-Depends: libodb
diff --git a/ports/libodb-boost/portfile.cmake b/ports/libodb-boost/portfile.cmake
index 212e6b01a..dc94a232f 100644
--- a/ports/libodb-boost/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libodb-boost/portfile.cmake
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ file(COPY
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS_DEBUG
         -DLIBODB_INSTALL_HEADERS=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/libodb-mysql/CONTROL b/ports/libodb-mysql/CONTROL
index fe5a28e8a..7d2ee12f1 100644
--- a/ports/libodb-mysql/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libodb-mysql/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: libodb-mysql
-Version: 2.4.0-2
+Version: 2.4.0-3
 Homepage: https://www.codesynthesis.com/products/odb/
 Description: MySQL support for the ODB ORM library
 Build-Depends: libodb, libmysql
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ports/libodb-mysql/portfile.cmake b/ports/libodb-mysql/portfile.cmake
index 88684bd35..cf2d8b8c7 100644
--- a/ports/libodb-mysql/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libodb-mysql/portfile.cmake
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ set(MYSQL_LIB "${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}/lib/libmysql.lib")
 set(MYSQL_LIB_DEBUG "${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}/debug/lib/libmysql.lib")
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DMYSQL_INCLUDE_DIR=${MYSQL_INCLUDE_DIR}
     OPTIONS_RELEASE
diff --git a/ports/libodb-pgsql/CONTROL b/ports/libodb-pgsql/CONTROL
index d35291135..a6988eeb0 100644
--- a/ports/libodb-pgsql/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libodb-pgsql/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: libodb-pgsql
-Version: 2.4.0-2
+Version: 2.4.0-3
 Homepage: https://www.codesynthesis.com/products/odb/
 Description: Description: PostgreSQL support for the ODB ORM library
 Build-Depends: libodb, libpq
diff --git a/ports/libodb-pgsql/portfile.cmake b/ports/libodb-pgsql/portfile.cmake
index 3e31f2aa7..ed9f35034 100644
--- a/ports/libodb-pgsql/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libodb-pgsql/portfile.cmake
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ file(COPY
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS_DEBUG
         -DLIBODB_INSTALL_HEADERS=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/libodb-sqlite/CONTROL b/ports/libodb-sqlite/CONTROL
index a8d9ef41f..ed02fa815 100644
--- a/ports/libodb-sqlite/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libodb-sqlite/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: libodb-sqlite
-Version: 2.4.0-3
+Version: 2.4.0-4
 Homepage: https://www.codesynthesis.com/products/odb/
 Description: Sqlite support for the ODB ORM library
 Build-Depends: libodb, sqlite3
diff --git a/ports/libodb-sqlite/portfile.cmake b/ports/libodb-sqlite/portfile.cmake
index b301169a7..67e4ffb37 100644
--- a/ports/libodb-sqlite/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libodb-sqlite/portfile.cmake
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ file(COPY
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS_DEBUG
         -DLIBODB_INSTALL_HEADERS=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/libodb/CONTROL b/ports/libodb/CONTROL
index 049a1bd12..129db70ab 100644
--- a/ports/libodb/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libodb/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: libodb
-Version: 2.4.0-4
+Version: 2.4.0-5
 Homepage: https://www.codesynthesis.com/products/odb/
 Description: ODB library, base runtime for the ODB ORM solution
diff --git a/ports/libodb/portfile.cmake b/ports/libodb/portfile.cmake
index 1ca5d4a1a..7e48f43e5 100644
--- a/ports/libodb/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libodb/portfile.cmake
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ file(COPY
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS_DEBUG
         -DLIBODB_INSTALL_HEADERS=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/librabbitmq/CONTROL b/ports/librabbitmq/CONTROL
index 38287971d..9f2d0fae6 100644
--- a/ports/librabbitmq/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/librabbitmq/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: librabbitmq
-Version: 0.9.0
+Version: 0.9.0-1
 Build-Depends: openssl
 Homepage: https://github.com/alanxz/rabbitmq-c
 Description: A C-language AMQP client library for use with v2.0+ of the RabbitMQ broker.
diff --git a/ports/librabbitmq/portfile.cmake b/ports/librabbitmq/portfile.cmake
index 79463c26c..3bf4d25cc 100644
--- a/ports/librabbitmq/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/librabbitmq/portfile.cmake
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ string(COMPARE EQUAL "${VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE}" "dynamic" BUILD_SHARED)
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
   SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+  PREFER_NINJA
   OPTIONS
     -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF
     -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF
diff --git a/ports/libsamplerate/CONTROL b/ports/libsamplerate/CONTROL
index dc0bf20dc..36e5df98c 100644
--- a/ports/libsamplerate/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libsamplerate/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: libsamplerate
-Version: 0.1.9.0
+Version: 0.1.9.0-1
 Homepage: https://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC
 Description: Sample Rate Converter for audio
diff --git a/ports/libsamplerate/portfile.cmake b/ports/libsamplerate/portfile.cmake
index 87712f6d2..9cd648a6d 100644
--- a/ports/libsamplerate/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libsamplerate/portfile.cmake
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ file(COPY ${SOURCE_PATH}/Win32/config.h DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH}/src)
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}/src
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/libwebsockets/CONTROL b/ports/libwebsockets/CONTROL
index 1b091480a..a180ec420 100644
--- a/ports/libwebsockets/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/libwebsockets/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: libwebsockets
-Version: 3.1.0-2
+Version: 3.1.0-3
 Build-Depends: zlib, openssl
 Homepage: https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets
 Description: Libwebsockets is a lightweight pure C library built to use minimal CPU and memory resources, and provide fast throughput in both directions as client or server.
diff --git a/ports/libwebsockets/portfile.cmake b/ports/libwebsockets/portfile.cmake
index b2b90cccf..06793dd8e 100644
--- a/ports/libwebsockets/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libwebsockets/portfile.cmake
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ string(COMPARE EQUAL "${VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE}" "dynamic" LWS_WITH_SHARED)
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DLWS_WITH_STATIC=${LWS_WITH_STATIC}
         -DLWS_WITH_SHARED=${LWS_WITH_SHARED}
diff --git a/ports/lmdb/CONTROL b/ports/lmdb/CONTROL
index eea847401..eac4b017f 100644
--- a/ports/lmdb/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/lmdb/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: lmdb
-Version: 0.9.23-1
+Version: 0.9.23-2
 Homepage: https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb
 Description: LMDB is an extraordinarily fast, memory-efficient database
diff --git a/ports/lmdb/portfile.cmake b/ports/lmdb/portfile.cmake
index 9dc1aeeb2..064f7cff6 100644
--- a/ports/lmdb/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/lmdb/portfile.cmake
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/cmake/ DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH}/libraries/
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}/libraries/liblmdb
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS_DEBUG
         -DLMDB_INSTALL_HEADERS=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/metis/CONTROL b/ports/metis/CONTROL
index 02f5eb9e1..3ddfbb788 100644
--- a/ports/metis/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/metis/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: metis
-Version: 5.1.0-4
+Version: 5.1.0-5
 Homepage: https://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/overview
 Description: Serial Graph Partitioning and Fill-reducing Matrix Ordering
diff --git a/ports/metis/portfile.cmake b/ports/metis/portfile.cmake
index 7a7f575a6..ec17f0dc3 100644
--- a/ports/metis/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/metis/portfile.cmake
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ vcpkg_extract_source_archive_ex(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS ${OPTIONS}
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/mozjpeg/CONTROL b/ports/mozjpeg/CONTROL
index c5180d140..2f786a1c2 100644
--- a/ports/mozjpeg/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/mozjpeg/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: mozjpeg
-Version: 3.2-2
+Version: 3.2-3
 Homepage: https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg
 Description: MozJPEG reduces file sizes of JPEG images while retaining quality and compatibility with the vast majority of the world's deployed decoders. It's compatible with libjpeg API and ABI, and can be used as a drop-in replacement for libjpeg.
diff --git a/ports/mozjpeg/portfile.cmake b/ports/mozjpeg/portfile.cmake
index 70fc58dc4..d771fd205 100644
--- a/ports/mozjpeg/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/mozjpeg/portfile.cmake
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ string(COMPARE EQUAL "${VCPKG_CRT_LINKAGE}" "dynamic" WITH_CRT_DLL)
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DDENABLE_SHARED=${ENABLE_SHARED_BUILD}
         -DENABLE_STATIC=${ENABLE_STATIC_BUILD}
diff --git a/ports/nanodbc/CONTROL b/ports/nanodbc/CONTROL
index bf1aaa69e..20c7c28b5 100644
--- a/ports/nanodbc/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/nanodbc/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: nanodbc
-Version: 2.12.4-3
+Version: 2.12.4-4
 Homepage: https://github.com/lexicalunit/nanodbc
 Description: A small C++ wrapper for the native C ODBC API.
diff --git a/ports/nanodbc/portfile.cmake b/ports/nanodbc/portfile.cmake
index 7014c7eac..0b31d6f6f 100644
--- a/ports/nanodbc/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/nanodbc/portfile.cmake
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
 # Legacy, remove at release of v2.13
 		-DNANODBC_EXAMPLES=OFF
diff --git a/ports/nmslib/CONTROL b/ports/nmslib/CONTROL
index 262c40682..5f61fa1f9 100644
--- a/ports/nmslib/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/nmslib/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: nmslib
-Version: 1.7.3.6
+Version: 1.7.3.6-1
 Homepage: https://github.com/searchivarius/nmslib
 Description: Non-Metric Space Library (NMSLIB) is an efficient similarity search library and a toolkit for evaluation of k-NN methods for generic non-metric spaces.
 #
diff --git a/ports/nmslib/portfile.cmake b/ports/nmslib/portfile.cmake
index ffea74d75..ed5d902ba 100644
--- a/ports/nmslib/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/nmslib/portfile.cmake
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ endif()
 # TODO: check SSE and AVX avability and set corresponding tags
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}/similarity_search
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DWITH_EXTRAS=${WITH_EXTRAS}
 )
diff --git a/ports/parmetis/CONTROL b/ports/parmetis/CONTROL
index 7e5e3b21b..ca5e4fe80 100644
--- a/ports/parmetis/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/parmetis/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: parmetis
-Version: 4.0.3-2
+Version: 4.0.3-3
 Homepage: https://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/parmetis/overview
 Description: Parallel Graph Partitioning and Fill-reducing Matrix Ordering
 Build-Depends: metis, msmpi
diff --git a/ports/parmetis/portfile.cmake b/ports/parmetis/portfile.cmake
index 63b2cb87b..f3eee992f 100644
--- a/ports/parmetis/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/parmetis/portfile.cmake
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ vcpkg_extract_source_archive_ex(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         ${ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS}
 )
diff --git a/ports/plibsys/CONTROL b/ports/plibsys/CONTROL
index 2c71346bb..004f07084 100644
--- a/ports/plibsys/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/plibsys/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: plibsys
-Version: 0.0.4-1
+Version: 0.0.4-2
 Homepage: https://github.com/saprykin/plibsys
 Description: Highly portable C system library: threads and synchronization, sockets, IPC, data structures and more.
diff --git a/ports/plibsys/portfile.cmake b/ports/plibsys/portfile.cmake
index 210fddd37..a4a032370 100644
--- a/ports/plibsys/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/plibsys/portfile.cmake
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ endif()
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DPLIBSYS_TESTS=OFF
         -DPLIBSYS_COVERAGE=OFF
diff --git a/ports/proj4/CONTROL b/ports/proj4/CONTROL
index 265b8173d..f2a6ae8b6 100644
--- a/ports/proj4/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/proj4/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: proj4
-Version: 4.9.3-3
+Version: 4.9.3-4
 Homepage: https://download.osgeo.org/proj
 Description: PROJ.4 library for cartographic projections
diff --git a/ports/proj4/portfile.cmake b/ports/proj4/portfile.cmake
index b34f04ac3..70878aae6 100644
--- a/ports/proj4/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/proj4/portfile.cmake
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ endif()
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
     -DBUILD_LIBPROJ_SHARED=${VCPKG_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS}
     -DPROJ_LIB_SUBDIR=lib
diff --git a/ports/pugixml/CONTROL b/ports/pugixml/CONTROL
index a68f43833..7024b6b04 100644
--- a/ports/pugixml/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/pugixml/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: pugixml
-Version: 1.9-2
+Version: 1.9-3
 Homepage: https://github.com/zeux/pugixml
 Description: C++ XML processing library
diff --git a/ports/pugixml/portfile.cmake b/ports/pugixml/portfile.cmake
index 62d0a4b74..746e9c2d4 100644
--- a/ports/pugixml/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/pugixml/portfile.cmake
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/ragel/CONTROL b/ports/ragel/CONTROL
index 112128a52..1e23db117 100644
--- a/ports/ragel/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/ragel/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: ragel
-Version: 6.10-1
+Version: 6.10-2
 Homepage: https://www.colm.net/files/ragel
 Description: Ragel State Machine Compiler
diff --git a/ports/ragel/portfile.cmake b/ports/ragel/portfile.cmake
index 00082e4bd..820ded5df 100644
--- a/ports/ragel/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/ragel/portfile.cmake
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ vcpkg_apply_patches(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/re2/CONTROL b/ports/re2/CONTROL
index 4bf7106e7..d8ff925d8 100644
--- a/ports/re2/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/re2/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: re2
-Version: 2019-05-07-1
+Version: 2019-05-07-2
 Homepage: https://github.com/google/re2
 Description: RE2 is a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python. It is a C++ library.
diff --git a/ports/re2/portfile.cmake b/ports/re2/portfile.cmake
index ef2c9e842..690889c70 100644
--- a/ports/re2/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/re2/portfile.cmake
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS -DRE2_BUILD_TESTING=OFF
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/recast/CONTROL b/ports/recast/CONTROL
index e19df38c8..3726b99d5 100644
--- a/ports/recast/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/recast/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: recast
-Version: 1.5.1-2
+Version: 1.5.1-3
 Homepage: https://github.com/recastnavigation/recastnavigation
 Description: Navigation-mesh Toolset for Games
diff --git a/ports/recast/portfile.cmake b/ports/recast/portfile.cmake
index a544971d8..a84d06e3c 100644
--- a/ports/recast/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/recast/portfile.cmake
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH})
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/sdl2-gfx/CONTROL b/ports/sdl2-gfx/CONTROL
index 96a4d2776..8b4af0e61 100644
--- a/ports/sdl2-gfx/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/sdl2-gfx/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: sdl2-gfx
-Version: 1.0.4-1
+Version: 1.0.4-2
 Build-Depends: sdl2
 Description: Graphics primitives (line, circle, rectangle etc.) with AA support, rotozoomer and other drawing related support functions wrapped up in a C based add-on library for the Simple Direct Media (SDL) cross-platform API layer.
diff --git a/ports/sdl2-gfx/portfile.cmake b/ports/sdl2-gfx/portfile.cmake
index 9cc6a6ca8..ce83fd21e 100644
--- a/ports/sdl2-gfx/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/sdl2-gfx/portfile.cmake
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH})
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS_DEBUG -DSDL_GFX_SKIP_HEADERS=1
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/septag-sx/CONTROL b/ports/septag-sx/CONTROL
index a9748b910..ee9917e66 100644
--- a/ports/septag-sx/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/septag-sx/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: septag-sx
-Version: 2019-05-07-1
+Version: 2019-05-07-2
 Description: Portable base library for C programmers, designed for performance and simplicity.
diff --git a/ports/septag-sx/portfile.cmake b/ports/septag-sx/portfile.cmake
index d77545134..4fb87a250 100644
--- a/ports/septag-sx/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/septag-sx/portfile.cmake
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ string(COMPARE EQUAL "${VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE}" "dynamic" SX_SHARED_LIB)
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DSX_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
         -DSX_SHARED_LIB=${SX_SHARED_LIB}
diff --git a/ports/sfml/CONTROL b/ports/sfml/CONTROL
index d23645a30..606095d88 100644
--- a/ports/sfml/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/sfml/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: sfml
-Version: 2.5.1-1
+Version: 2.5.1-2
 Homepage: https://github.com/sfml/sfml
 Description: Simple and fast multimedia library
 Build-Depends: freetype, libflac, libogg, libvorbis, openal-soft, stb
diff --git a/ports/sfml/portfile.cmake b/ports/sfml/portfile.cmake
index a25c5628b..a4c0d89c4 100644
--- a/ports/sfml/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/sfml/portfile.cmake
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ endif()
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DSFML_BUILD_FRAMEWORKS=OFF
         -DSFML_USE_SYSTEM_DEPS=ON
diff --git a/ports/shaderc/CONTROL b/ports/shaderc/CONTROL
index 044fdd410..0878b17be 100644
--- a/ports/shaderc/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/shaderc/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: shaderc
-Version: 2019-06-26
+Version: 2019-06-26-1
 Homepage: https://github.com/google/shaderc
 Description: A collection of tools, libraries and tests for shader compilation.
 Build-Depends: glslang, spirv-tools
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ports/shaderc/portfile.cmake b/ports/shaderc/portfile.cmake
index fbdc1e4dd..297842296 100644
--- a/ports/shaderc/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/shaderc/portfile.cmake
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ vcpkg_add_to_path(PREPEND "${PYTHON3_EXE_PATH}")
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS -DSHADERC_SKIP_TESTS=true ${OPTIONS} -Dglslang_SOURCE_DIR=${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}/include -Dspirv-tools_SOURCE_DIR=${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}/include 
     OPTIONS_DEBUG -DSUFFIX_D=true
     OPTIONS_RELEASE -DSUFFIX_D=false
diff --git a/ports/signalrclient/CONTROL b/ports/signalrclient/CONTROL
index e64b920ba..85e4427d5 100644
--- a/ports/signalrclient/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/signalrclient/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: signalrclient
-Version: 1.0.0-beta1-6
+Version: 1.0.0-beta1-7
 Build-Depends: cpprestsdk, openssl
 Homepage: https://github.com/aspnet/SignalR-Client-Cpp
 Description: C++ client for SignalR.
diff --git a/ports/signalrclient/portfile.cmake b/ports/signalrclient/portfile.cmake
index e3b6e7c4d..39f1992b8 100644
--- a/ports/signalrclient/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/signalrclient/portfile.cmake
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS_DEBUG
         -DCPPREST_SO=${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}/debug/lib/cpprest_2_10d.lib
     OPTIONS_RELEASE
diff --git a/ports/so5extra/CONTROL b/ports/so5extra/CONTROL
index 22abf134c..fbe4a1e16 100644
--- a/ports/so5extra/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/so5extra/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: so5extra
-Version: 1.3.1
+Version: 1.3.1-1
 Description: A set of additional tools for SObjectizer framework.
 Build-Depends: sobjectizer
diff --git a/ports/so5extra/portfile.cmake b/ports/so5extra/portfile.cmake
index d660fbbca..71e1cb443 100644
--- a/ports/so5extra/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/so5extra/portfile.cmake
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DSO5EXTRA_INSTALL=ON
 )
diff --git a/ports/spaceland/CONTROL b/ports/spaceland/CONTROL
index 4f885e6eb..97b5a9156 100644
--- a/ports/spaceland/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/spaceland/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: spaceland
-Version: 7.8.2-2
+Version: 7.8.2-3
 Description: Spaceland Lib (sl) is a suite for geometric computation, specifically adapted to OpenGL.
 Build-Depends: zlib
diff --git a/ports/spaceland/portfile.cmake b/ports/spaceland/portfile.cmake
index d90ceafd7..def38d6d1 100644
--- a/ports/spaceland/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/spaceland/portfile.cmake
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     DISABLE_PARALLEL_CONFIGURE
 	OPTIONS
 		-DSL_TEST=OFF
diff --git a/ports/speexdsp/CONTROL b/ports/speexdsp/CONTROL
index d96eb11c1..793281d41 100644
--- a/ports/speexdsp/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/speexdsp/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: speexdsp
-Version: 1.2rc3-2
+Version: 1.2rc3-3
 Homepage: https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/xiph/releases/speex/
 Description: A patent-free, Open Source/Free Software DSP library.
 Build-Depends:
diff --git a/ports/speexdsp/portfile.cmake b/ports/speexdsp/portfile.cmake
index 72bc313d7..0cc6ac71c 100644
--- a/ports/speexdsp/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/speexdsp/portfile.cmake
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ endif()
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${CMAKE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS -DSOURCE_PATH=${SOURCE_PATH} -DUSE_SSE=${USE_SSE}
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/sqlpp11-connector-mysql/CONTROL b/ports/sqlpp11-connector-mysql/CONTROL
index e56275137..78817eae7 100644
--- a/ports/sqlpp11-connector-mysql/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/sqlpp11-connector-mysql/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: sqlpp11-connector-mysql
-Version: 0.25-1
+Version: 0.25-2
 Description: A C++ wrapper for MySQL meant to be used in combination with sqlpp11.
 Build-Depends: date, libmariadb, sqlpp11
diff --git a/ports/sqlpp11-connector-mysql/portfile.cmake b/ports/sqlpp11-connector-mysql/portfile.cmake
index fbaaebaf1..9f93058a4 100644
--- a/ports/sqlpp11-connector-mysql/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/sqlpp11-connector-mysql/portfile.cmake
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 # Use sqlpp11-connector-mysql's own build process, skipping tests
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DENABLE_TESTS:BOOL=OFF
         -DDATE_INCLUDE_DIR=${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}/include
diff --git a/ports/sqlpp11-connector-sqlite3/CONTROL b/ports/sqlpp11-connector-sqlite3/CONTROL
index 25e680eda..564a9a9a4 100644
--- a/ports/sqlpp11-connector-sqlite3/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/sqlpp11-connector-sqlite3/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: sqlpp11-connector-sqlite3
-Version: 0.29-1
+Version: 0.29-2
 Description: A C++ wrapper for sqlite3 meant to be used in combination with sqlpp11.
 Build-Depends: date, sqlite3, sqlpp11
diff --git a/ports/sqlpp11-connector-sqlite3/portfile.cmake b/ports/sqlpp11-connector-sqlite3/portfile.cmake
index 735912a86..6587df313 100644
--- a/ports/sqlpp11-connector-sqlite3/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/sqlpp11-connector-sqlite3/portfile.cmake
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 # Use sqlpp11-connector-sqlite3's own build process, skipping tests
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DENABLE_TESTS:BOOL=OFF
         -DSQLPP11_INCLUDE_DIR=${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}/include
diff --git a/ports/sqlpp11/CONTROL b/ports/sqlpp11/CONTROL
index 282598dc5..b371f0a8c 100644
--- a/ports/sqlpp11/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/sqlpp11/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: sqlpp11
-Version: 0.58
+Version: 0.58-1
 Description: A type safe embedded domain specific language for SQL queries and results in C++.
 Build-Depends: date
diff --git a/ports/sqlpp11/portfile.cmake b/ports/sqlpp11/portfile.cmake
index a11d563d9..7fe915213 100644
--- a/ports/sqlpp11/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/sqlpp11/portfile.cmake
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 # Use sqlpp11's own build process, skipping tests
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
     -DENABLE_TESTS:BOOL=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/stlab/CONTROL b/ports/stlab/CONTROL
index 01651f59b..6a289c531 100644
--- a/ports/stlab/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/stlab/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: stlab
-Version: 1.4.1
+Version: 1.4.1-1
 Description: 
   stlab is the ongoing work of what was Adobe’s Software Technology Lab.
   The Concurrency library provides futures and channels, high level constructs for implementing algorithms that eases the use of multiple CPU cores while minimizing contention. This library solves several problems of the C++11 and C++17 TS futures.
diff --git a/ports/stlab/portfile.cmake b/ports/stlab/portfile.cmake
index 7c8925d93..2bcb7d102 100644
--- a/ports/stlab/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/stlab/portfile.cmake
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/stxxl/CONTROL b/ports/stxxl/CONTROL
index 847a31067..42609d34f 100644
--- a/ports/stxxl/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/stxxl/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: stxxl
-Version: 2018-11-15-1
+Version: 2018-11-15-2
 Description: Standard Template Library for Extra Large Data Sets
diff --git a/ports/stxxl/portfile.cmake b/ports/stxxl/portfile.cmake
index 41665c4cd..23414f08e 100644
--- a/ports/stxxl/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/stxxl/portfile.cmake
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DBUILD_STATIC_LIBS=ON
         -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF
diff --git a/ports/sundials/CONTROL b/ports/sundials/CONTROL
index dc6955d40..101325d37 100644
--- a/ports/sundials/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/sundials/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: sundials
-Version: 3.1.1
+Version: 3.1.1-1
 Homepage: https://computation.llnl.gov/projects/sundials
 Description: SUNDIALS (SUite of Nonlinear and DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers)
diff --git a/ports/sundials/portfile.cmake b/ports/sundials/portfile.cmake
index 6798f0272..da4d9c4a2 100644
--- a/ports/sundials/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/sundials/portfile.cmake
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ vcpkg_apply_patches(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS -DEXAMPLES_ENABLE=OFF
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/szip/CONTROL b/ports/szip/CONTROL
index ac60f1a9d..8f1fedbc6 100644
--- a/ports/szip/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/szip/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: szip
-Version: 2.1.1-4
+Version: 2.1.1-5
 Homepage: https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/lib-external/szip
 Description: Szip compression software, providing lossless compression of scientific data
diff --git a/ports/szip/portfile.cmake b/ports/szip/portfile.cmake
index 047abf392..cffb1693c 100644
--- a/ports/szip/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/szip/portfile.cmake
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ vcpkg_extract_source_archive_ex(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DSZIP_INSTALL_DATA_DIR=share/szip/data
         -DSZIP_INSTALL_CMAKE_DIR=share/szip
diff --git a/ports/tinyxml2/CONTROL b/ports/tinyxml2/CONTROL
index 5a33ae078..c0016a412 100644
--- a/ports/tinyxml2/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/tinyxml2/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: tinyxml2
-Version: 7.0.1-1
+Version: 7.0.1-2
 Homepage: https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2
 Description: A simple, small, efficient, C++ XML parser
 
diff --git a/ports/tinyxml2/portfile.cmake b/ports/tinyxml2/portfile.cmake
index 7d4ceaff1..b98e45a5a 100644
--- a/ports/tinyxml2/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/tinyxml2/portfile.cmake
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/tsl-hopscotch-map/CONTROL b/ports/tsl-hopscotch-map/CONTROL
index 5fe5d726a..0f2b82e36 100644
--- a/ports/tsl-hopscotch-map/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/tsl-hopscotch-map/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: tsl-hopscotch-map
-Version: 2.2.1
+Version: 2.2.1-1
 Description: C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing 
diff --git a/ports/tsl-hopscotch-map/portfile.cmake b/ports/tsl-hopscotch-map/portfile.cmake
index c96df35c6..00998338a 100644
--- a/ports/tsl-hopscotch-map/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/tsl-hopscotch-map/portfile.cmake
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/tsl-ordered-map/CONTROL b/ports/tsl-ordered-map/CONTROL
index bb2b75a9d..2170432d2 100644
--- a/ports/tsl-ordered-map/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/tsl-ordered-map/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: tsl-ordered-map
-Version: 0.8.1
+Version: 0.8.1-1
 Description: C++ hash map and hash set which preserve the order of insertion
diff --git a/ports/tsl-ordered-map/portfile.cmake b/ports/tsl-ordered-map/portfile.cmake
index 19940d270..9f4fe996b 100644
--- a/ports/tsl-ordered-map/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/tsl-ordered-map/portfile.cmake
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/tsl-sparse-map/CONTROL b/ports/tsl-sparse-map/CONTROL
index 627d5bea1..556386857 100644
--- a/ports/tsl-sparse-map/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/tsl-sparse-map/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: tsl-sparse-map
-Version: 0.6.1
+Version: 0.6.1-1
 Description: C++ implementation of a memory efficient hash map and hash set
diff --git a/ports/tsl-sparse-map/portfile.cmake b/ports/tsl-sparse-map/portfile.cmake
index 07d1f3048..44a366d87 100644
--- a/ports/tsl-sparse-map/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/tsl-sparse-map/portfile.cmake
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
diff --git a/ports/usd/CONTROL b/ports/usd/CONTROL
index e04784de4..d14831d54 100644
--- a/ports/usd/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/usd/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: usd
-Version: 0.8.4-1
+Version: 0.8.4-2
 Build-Depends: boost-assign, boost-crc, boost-date-time, boost-filesystem, boost-format, boost-multi-index, boost-program-options, boost-regex, boost-system, boost-vmd, tbb, zlib
 Description: Universal Scene Description (USD) is an efficient, scalable system for authoring, reading, and streaming time-sampled scene description for interchange between graphics applications.
diff --git a/ports/usd/portfile.cmake b/ports/usd/portfile.cmake
index cada7b4e1..76b1473be 100644
--- a/ports/usd/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/usd/portfile.cmake
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ vcpkg_add_to_path("${PYTHON2_DIR}")
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DPXR_BUILD_ALEMBIC_PLUGIN:BOOL=OFF
         -DPXR_BUILD_EMBREE_PLUGIN:BOOL=OFF
diff --git a/ports/xlnt/CONTROL b/ports/xlnt/CONTROL
index 6433b748e..b3fbc8422 100644
--- a/ports/xlnt/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/xlnt/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: xlnt
-Version: 1.3.0-1
+Version: 1.3.0-2
 Homepage: https://github.com/tfussell/xlnt
 Description: Cross-platform user-friendly xlsx library for C++14
diff --git a/ports/xlnt/portfile.cmake b/ports/xlnt/portfile.cmake
index 29a0e2201..1e1a9cb43 100644
--- a/ports/xlnt/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/xlnt/portfile.cmake
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ endif()
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS -DTESTS=OFF -DSAMPLES=OFF -DBENCHMARKS=OFF -DSTATIC=${STATIC}
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/yato/CONTROL b/ports/yato/CONTROL
index f19519315..65546494d 100644
--- a/ports/yato/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/yato/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: yato
-Version: 1.0-1
+Version: 1.0-2
 Description: Modern C++14 containers and utilities, actors system, typesafe config
diff --git a/ports/yato/portfile.cmake b/ports/yato/portfile.cmake
index 44ee93782..76a54ee13 100644
--- a/ports/yato/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/yato/portfile.cmake
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ file(COPY "${SOURCE_PATH}/modules/config/yato"
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
         -DYATO_BUILD_TESTS:BOOL=OFF
         -DYATO_BUILD_ACTORS:BOOL=ON