I think this honestly undersells cmake on this front. CMake's ExternalProject[1] and FetchContent[2] features basically combine into a package manager, letting

I think this honestly undersells cmake on this front. CMake's ExternalProject[1] and FetchContent[2] features basically combine into a package manager, letting you pretty seemlessly incorporate things from arbitrary places, especially if they themselves use cmake. [1] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/ExternalProject.html https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/ExternalProject.h... [2] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/FetchContent.html https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/FetchContent.html