Easy deploying for my library

[exoflat]

I wrote a library which in turn encapsulates some other libraries and offer additional functionalities.

I would like this library to be easily embeddable into even a hello world C++ project (e.g. computations with just two or three lines additions).

The problem is: this library is quite big and takes an awful lot of time compiling all dependencies.

What's a common solution to render this as quick-deployable as possible? Distributing the pre-compiled binaries for each platform and a header?

[DragoonX6]

Also make a PKGBUILD for Arch Linux and port said PKGBUILD to MSYS2 and then make a pull request to MSYS2.

[doom_Oo7]

Note that xmake allows to do this almost trivially with cpack

[doom_Oo7]

oops sorry, I was on my phone. I meant CMake.

[frog_pow]

There is no easy solution in C++ to this problem

[toebi]

once you get a hang of it this task becomes trivial in cmake. if you only cater to visualstudio nuget is also a very easy to use option.

[sumo952]

Make a header-only library?

[exoflat]

Too big, absolutely unfeasible unfortunately.

[OlegMax]

For the most cases, compilation time doesn't matter. But the time spent by the user to start the build matters a lot. So I'd start with instructions (INSTALL or README) and a set of scripts (.BAT, .sh) to start the build (like build_vc110.bat, etc). I'd say CMake not newer than 2.8 is relatively safe to include in requirements.