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    <p>I believe, CMake (<a href="http://www.cmake.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cmake.org/</a>) is the best C++ has now. Like C++ itself, CMake is neither pretty nor simple to use, but, again, like C++, it's very powerful and versatile. </p> <p>It's currently used by a great number of projects, which need custom and/or complex configuration and building.</p> <p>Here's some of it's features, you may find useful:</p> <ol> <li>It's not a build tool. It generates the files which will be used by the native build tools - Visual Studio solution files, GNU make files and what not. It supports a lot of compilers out-of-the box - namely, cl, gcc, clang. So, this addresses the 'IDE' part of your question.</li> <li>It has a useful <code>find_package</code> macro that helps finding installed libraries to make use of it in the project. E.g. if you have the boost libraries installed, you can use something like the following code, which I believe is rather self-descriptive <pre><code>find_package( Boost COMPONENTS thread system) if(Boost_FOUND) include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}) link_directories(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS}) endif(Boost_FOUND)</code></pre></li> <li>It has an ExternalProject extension, which can help automate downloading, building and installing libraries. E.g. for zlib, add the following to your CMakeLists.txt:<pre><code>include(ExternalProject) ExternalProject_Add( ZLIB URL <a href="http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz" rel="nofollow">http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz</a> ) </code></pre>It will fetch the tarball from the given url, build zlib, and install it. After that you can use find_package again. </li> <li>In the end of the day, CMake is highly customizable. You can customize the ExternalProject_Add function to change downloading, building and installing rules. If it doesn't help either, you can always fallback to calling <code>curl</code> or <code>git clone</code> to fetch the sources, and call building and installing commands manually.</li> </ol> <p>Once again, it's not an out-of-the-box or just-works solution, but it gets the job done, which is acknowledged by a quite large user base. To paraphrase the known quote, 'CMake is the worst build tool, but others are even worse'</p>
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    1. COThanks for your answer, Sergei. For me the most important point is so handle external libraries, so that they get installed on any platform with the ease of a click. I could live with including everything in my repository, and every heard of using sub repositories for that. I already worked with Cmake, but as far as I know, it lacks automatic dependency resolution.
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    2. COYeah, it doesn't have it built-in. What you're asking for is something like a 'package manager'. Python has pip, Haskell has cabal, Ruby has bundler, etc. But I don't think there's such a thing for C++. I know at least 1 project with similar goals - ryppl, but I haven't really used it and don't think it has wide adoption. So, to repeat myself, you can get close to what you need with CMake with reasonable effort.
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    3. COYou gave me an example of how to detect installed libraries and use them. But my question is actually about the case that the libraries aren't already installed. This is because my project uses more than the commonly installed libraries. What do you think of including all the third party libraries in my repository? Or may I somehow use Linux repositories like apt-get on Windows to get the libraries source?
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