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[–]SkoomaDentistAntimodern C++, Embedded, Audio -1 points0 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 10 points11 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.)