> Maybe some effort should be put into making it much easier to use external libraries in a C++ IDE then? If you're coding to a specific IDE, it can be made pr

> Maybe some effort should be put into making it much easier to use external libraries in a C++ IDE then? If you're coding to a specific IDE, it can be made pretty simple. > They have NuGet for .NET in Visual Studio, you'd think this could be done for native software. You're quite correct, it can be done for native software. Apparently, even has: http://blog.nuget.org/20130426/native-support.html http://blog.nuget.org/20130426/native-support.html I won't hold my breath for XCode or KDE to support the same, though. > It is actually far easier to do this on Linux with package managers, which is sad for Windows imho. Equally sad, I've found this doesn't apply much beyond "Hello World".