What is the "best" way to manage builds and dependencies in cpp projec

Gopal

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What is the "best" way to manage builds and dependencies in cpp projects. Meson seems to be perfect for building, but I cant figure out a reliable way for dependencies ?? I guess subprojects might be by far the most reliable solution, but it would mean that the dependencies i want to use are already a meson project, which is often not the case. Is there a good dependency manager that I make use of for a toolchain that would work everywhere? conan seems to be able to work with meson, but I already had problems with broken dependencies in conan (sdl2-image for example)

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Rajanikant Hawaldar5y ago
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almost all projects this days have a cmake file, that can be used to grab library access for linking, etc. automating the flags needed at compile time. cmake complains if you try building with missing packages
before even reaching the compilation or linking stage. by the way, i have never used meson, so I don't really know how the two compare to each other.
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Gopal5y ago
how would that help me? and yeah i tried cmake, but never liked it, which is why i am trying out other things, so far meson seems to be the best for building
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Rajanikant Hawaldar5y ago
cmake + vcpkg
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