[floatboth]

The de-facto standard for dependency discovery is pkg-config. CMake being its own little world with its own finding system is annoying and part of the reason why the ecosystem has not migrated from autocrap to CMake en masse. Thankfully Meson came along, which does everything correctly.

[jcelerier]

pkgconfig is everything but a standard. It barely works on windows and macOS which are the most common platforms.