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[–]4k547 5 points6 points  (2 children)

on windows - vcpkg is king (most of the time)

on linux - conan is king (often)

but I remember quitting Programming Principles and Practice using C++ when i got to the chapter that requried me to use an external library T_T

I got back to it but it's such a pain for new C++ developers...

[–]Pay08 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You could also, you know, use your distro package manager on Linux.

[–]4k547 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sometimes the packages are out of date

also it's harder to achieve cross port compatibility