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Meson or CMake. Neither one is really all that great, I would say personally that Meson is better in theory but CMake is more widely supported so I prefer Meson but it's pretty even. Either one is better than just an enormous makefile. Ninja is a different level of the stack, you can use meson+ninja or cmake+ninja.

Either way the C++ dependency management situation even makes the Python dependency management situation look good by comparison.



> Either way the C++ dependency management situation even makes the Python dependency management situation look good by comparison.

Is there a better way than “script the compilation of all dependencies and share the result” for any big project that has to support Windows? I’m interested in alternatives.




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