You're trying to force Linux-style packaging where declaratively specified dependencies from a single(-ish) repository and shared DLLs are a necessity due to in

You're trying to force Linux-style packaging where declaratively specified dependencies from a single(-ish) repository and shared DLLs are a necessity due to intentionally hostile architecture of GNU/Linux for shipping binary-only software. You have to build everything as one single OS, because that's how Unix people did in 80s. Unix people weren't designing an OS for general binary software distribution. You need to give up Linux-style thinking first. Windows-native tools like Visual Studio, WiX, MSI etc. make it nice and easy to vendor your own DLLs. They are designed for closed-source and binary-distribution first. And if the libraries are designed for this ecosystem, you just import them in VS. If you don't want to give up Linux-style dependency management you can use source-based build systems. You can use `conan` as a source package manager to get something closer and then export every single binary dependency `conan install . --deploy=runtime_deploy --output-folder=dist`.