CMake and Linking External libraries is a kick in the nuts if i've ever seen it.

• vcpkg-cmake-integration

  2 34 10.0 CMake

  Vcpkg autoinstaller for CMake: Fetch Vcpkg (with versioning), bootstrap Vcpkg, install packages from `vcpkg.json`-manifest or individually from within CMake

  Did you define sdl main function? also are you running vcpkg system-wide or do you have pinned version? ( ie. https://github.com/bitmeal/vcpkg-cmake-integration )

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• xrepo-cmake

  9 55 4.7 CMake

  CMake wrapper for Xrepo C and C++ package manager

  

  You can also use the xmake package manager with CMake if you want.

• CPM.cmake

  41 3,066 5.8 CMake

  📦 CMake's missing package manager. A small CMake script for setup-free, cross-platform, reproducible dependency management.

  

  Yes, i found vcpkg terrible and FetchContent usually works way better. An amazing project is https://github.com/cpm-cmake/CPM.cmake, which automates FetchContent and makes dependencies mostly hassle free.

• Vcpkg

  147 23,370 10.0 CMake

  C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS

  

  And then there's also Qt which has plugins. vcpkg Qt5 is nice enough to copy the plugins for you, but not with Qt6. The official answer seems to be "use windeployqt". So I do, and it copies plugins fine. But sqlite doesn't work, despite the plugin sqldrivers/qsqlite.dll being in the right location. Turns out that neither vcpkg or windeployqt copy sqlite3.dll. I switched to static libraries after that, it's a lot slower to link, clang doesn't work for some reason (but clang-cl does) but at least I don't have to worry about DLLs.

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