[duped]

Don't use make! Use a makefile generator!

(hope the sarcasm is obvious)

CMake is pretty good, so is Meson, so is Conan. All of them have some unfortunate shortcomings that make the C++ ecosystem hard to work in, but the biggest problem is diversity of build systems for dependencies.

[Conscat]

XMake is by far the best option. There is nothing even close in feature completeness, nor in user friendliness.