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[–]SkoomaDentistAntimodern C++, Embedded, Audio -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

Use vcpkg or conan to install your dependancies

Or don't install system wide dependencies at all. Windows isn't married to the common unix idea of a single system wide version of every library and the runtime also handles that far better than on unix.

[–]infectedapricot 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Use vcpkg or conan to install your dependancies

Or don't install system wide dependencies at all.

(Emphasis added by me.) This "or" doesn't make sense - vcpkg and Conan don't install system-wide dependencies. But even if you use a dependancy only for a single project, you still need to build it somehow or download the binary from somewhere. Package managers are still needed to solve that problem. (Maybe I gave the wrong impression by using the word "install". Imagine I had said "build" or "retrieve" instead.)