> who cares?
He's still making a valid point that dependency management & build systems for C & derivatives are a shit show.
He's still making a valid point that dependency management & build systems for C & derivatives are a shit show.
In fact, I just built my own artifact server where I store vcpkg exports and remote Bazel dependencies. That way, statically linking in opencv is as easy as http_archive with a template BUILD file.
autotools is great, meson and bazel similary. but people quirking around with cmake alone, or conan or other toys cannot be helped much.
I assume you are joking. Autotools is a slow-as-molasses system (running autoreconf could take half of your build's wall time!) designed for 1980s unix wars (with support for anything not resembling 1980s unix C programs being an awkward bolt-on), complete with an unusually hostile syntax and multiple levels of inefficient interpreters, all optimized to encourage cargo-cult copy-paste programming. It was barely tolerable at the turn of the century, when everyone used it for lack of a good alternative. For a while, its one saving grace was decent support for cross-compiling. But using it for a new project today is insane.