diff --git a/ports/gflags/portfile.cmake b/ports/gflags/portfile.cmake
index fed9053482a6b7..02cb969e4b1005 100644
--- a/ports/gflags/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/gflags/portfile.cmake
@@ -19,15 +19,14 @@ vcpkg_cmake_configure(
         -DGFLAGS_REGISTER_BUILD_DIR:BOOL=OFF
         -DGFLAGS_REGISTER_INSTALL_PREFIX:BOOL=OFF
         -DBUILD_gflags_nothreads_LIB:BOOL=OFF
-        -DGFLAGS_USE_TARGET_NAMESPACE:BOOL=ON
-        -DCMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX=d
 )
 
 vcpkg_cmake_install()
+vcpkg_copy_pdbs()
 vcpkg_cmake_config_fixup(CONFIG_PATH lib/cmake/gflags)
-
-if(VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE STREQUAL "static")
-    file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/bin" "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/bin")
+if(NOT VCPKG_TARGET_IS_WINDOWS)
+    vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig()
+    vcpkg_replace_string("${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/lib/pkgconfig/gflags.pc" "-lgflags" "-lgflags_debug")
 endif()
 
 file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/include")
@@ -35,8 +34,6 @@ file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/share")
 
 file(INSTALL "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/vcpkg-cmake-wrapper.cmake" DESTINATION "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT}")
 file(INSTALL "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/usage" DESTINATION "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT}")
-file(INSTALL "${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING.txt" DESTINATION "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT}" RENAME copyright)
+vcpkg_install_copyright(FILE_LIST "${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING.txt")
 
-vcpkg_copy_pdbs()
 
-vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig()
diff --git a/ports/gflags/usage b/ports/gflags/usage
index 67fb74789b6786..5d86c434ab3f72 100644
--- a/ports/gflags/usage
+++ b/ports/gflags/usage
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-The package gflags provides CMake targets:
+gflags provides CMake targets:
 
+    set(GFLAGS_USE_TARGET_NAMESPACE ON)
     find_package(gflags CONFIG REQUIRED)
     target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE gflags::gflags)
diff --git a/ports/gflags/vcpkg-cmake-wrapper.cmake b/ports/gflags/vcpkg-cmake-wrapper.cmake
index 55b3fc8dc54aa5..8fbb208b43057c 100644
--- a/ports/gflags/vcpkg-cmake-wrapper.cmake
+++ b/ports/gflags/vcpkg-cmake-wrapper.cmake
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
-set(GFLAGS_USE_TARGET_NAMESPACE ON)
-
+if(NOT DEFINED GFLAGS_USE_TARGET_NAMESPACE)
+    # vcpkg legacy
+    set(GFLAGS_USE_TARGET_NAMESPACE ON)
+    _find_package(${ARGS})
+    unset(GFLAGS_USE_TARGET_NAMESPACE)
+endif()
 _find_package(${ARGS})
-
-foreach(tgt gflags gflags_shared gflags_static)
-    if (NOT TARGET ${tgt} AND TARGET "gflags::${tgt}")
-        add_library(${tgt} INTERFACE IMPORTED)
-        target_link_libraries(${tgt} INTERFACE "gflags::${tgt}")
-    endif() 
-endforeach(tgt)
diff --git a/ports/gflags/vcpkg.json b/ports/gflags/vcpkg.json
index f39eebb7a3a938..4a63b70a029711 100644
--- a/ports/gflags/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/gflags/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 {
   "name": "gflags",
   "version": "2.2.2",
-  "port-version": 7,
+  "port-version": 8,
   "description": "A C++ library that implements commandline flags processing",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/gflags/gflags",
+  "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
   "supports": "!uwp",
   "dependencies": [
     {
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 52a018c510a1bc..ee4f0f1be281b0 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -2926,7 +2926,7 @@
     },
     "gflags": {
       "baseline": "2.2.2",
-      "port-version": 7
+      "port-version": 8
     },
     "ghc-filesystem": {
       "baseline": "1.5.14",
diff --git a/versions/g-/gflags.json b/versions/g-/gflags.json
index e513632c9a7344..81fdd19bf2798d 100644
--- a/versions/g-/gflags.json
+++ b/versions/g-/gflags.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "606a0a3ad49f6e6276672e230431e6797d56180e",
+      "version": "2.2.2",
+      "port-version": 8
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "1c57a920065312afe80b1b8a3595f82005da61ee",
       "version": "2.2.2",