Note that a lot of the pip projects are implemented in C++. You install packages for the environment you are targeting.
A lot of folks use Conan or vcpkg for pure C++ dev.
Sorry, I was using `pip` as an example of an easy build system to use to get stuff working. Is it as simple as `conan install boost` within a projects dir?
It's more or less as easy and hard as pip dependency management, yes. Including deducing sets of valid version ranges and so on.