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The problem in C++ land (my land) is all your dependencies are probably using different build systems.

Do you wan to migrate all your third party libs to Bazel, or just hack up a few lines of CI yaml to call the authors build system?

I lean on gitlab yaml quite heavily and it feels quite effortless

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We vendored all of our third party dependencies into our Bazel build. There were a lot and it was a giant PITA but over a multi-year horizon it was worth it. That doesn't mean it's the right choice for every business but it paid off for us.

Vendoring all your third party dependencies is fine, but you still have to build them.

Personally I use the native build system that upstream uses for most of them, and just hack in my compiler flags/options where necessary. Then I use CI triggers to rebuild my projects when the dependencies are rebuilt.

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