Question about libraries in makefiles for sharing on github

[hearty spindle]

Hi everyone, im a bit new to C and C++ ecosystem and theres so many ways to manage libraries. I decided to use CMake for my most recent one but im not sure how to make it work on other machines.

I have done the following so far for different projects

A) Download the DLL and put it in a /lib folder, so like libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

B) Clone the repo so like /imgui and that has all the source files

C) Use a homebrew so i point a path at my binary, but this depends e.g. if the user has homebrew or where they installed the lib

Im just wondering im sure theres a better way to do this right? Like can i point it to some online distirbution like you put the github url?

[hardy swift]

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[copper stream]

Nope, welcome to C++ land

[hearty spindle]

oh man

[hearty spindle]

is there a 'best' way at least?

Im assuming the compiled binaries or?

so i compile imgui and then put it in? Not sure

[copper stream]

i mean you can use fetchcontent in cmake

vcpkg and conan exist

find_package exist as well

it all sucks tho

[hearty spindle]

yeah i see fetchcontent you gotta declare it and stuff

oh well

Will do so though 🫡