Comment by geokon

Comment by geokon 20 hours ago

Dependency management is a solved problem in the C/C++ world.

It all should be done from within CMake using Hunter. They handle diamond dependencies correctly (everyone else just yolos it), they handle "package registry" correctly, ie git repos + hash verification. They handle tool chain files and forwarding of compilation flags correctly. I had a library building for like a dozen targets with it (including crazy stuff like iOS 9)

augusto-moura 20 hours ago

Solved problem is a strong statement. I've never heard of Hunter before. And as far as I can remember the most popular way of solving this is having a list of dependencies in a README somewhere so you can install them and their headers with your os/distro package manager

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geokon 20 hours ago

That's not a serious solution. You don't control dependency versions if you use a package manager and you can't build full static builds or full debug builds etc. Some targets don't have package managers (ex an embedded device)

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- augusto-moura 19 hours ago
  
  It is not, but it is the standard. So I would this is _not_ a solved problem
  
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