Morten Nobel's Blog

One of the pains of using C++ is how to manage dependencies. The common approach is to manually manage dependencies by either downloading and installing a prebuilt library or compiling it from the source code. While this may seem like the right thing to do, there actually are a lot of pitfalls using this approach: It is cumbersome compile you project on new machines and it is hard to manage libraries shared by multiple local projects. Package managers (like Homebrew and apt-get) and build managers (like CMake) does make things easier, but often still requires some ‘fiddling’ to make things work. I’ll here show how the dependency manager Biicode can be used to solve this problem for a simple SDL2 project. As IDE I use JetBrain’s new CLion.

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