[tasogare]

./configure, make, make install have been more reliable than any pip install I had to deal with.

I read about a C++ package manager written by Microsoft few years ago, maybe it's now somewhat usable?

[BatFastard]

vcpkg? Its pretty handy. Not like cargo, but better then what existed before.

[johannes1234321]

That errors out when a library is missing, Soni figure out where to get it, how to install it and rerun configure, just to see something else is missing. And that then leads to a version conflict and then I mess.... only works well for projects with few dependencies and especially no uncommon dependencies.