> ...only to discover the library it was missing is called $NAME-dev on my distro... You lost me at this part: if the dependency is easy to install and the iss

> ...only to discover the library it was missing is called $NAME-dev on my distro... You lost me at this part: if the dependency is easy to install and the issue is you just don't know that all of the headers are in -dev packages this seems like the easiest problem to never have again. Really: right up until there I was rooting you on.