[blub]

CMake is something you set up once and then mostly add source files which is a one liner. A platform like Android would have an SDK with all dependencies pre-installed, anything else would be nuts.

Have no idea what “include conflicts” are supposed to be. The compiler receives a series of paths and searches for files by name.

[constantcrying]

You can't be serious.

>A platform like Android would have an SDK with all dependencies pre-installed, anything else would be nuts.

Android is usually Java, but you still have to manage dependencies yourself. There is no SDK which includes "all" dependencies, that would be absurd. You are going to create your own dependencies.

For CMake, it is so bad that there are many high effort attempts to replace it, by Google, Microsoft and some others, just to not have to deal with it.

[ttfkam]

Android APPLICATION development is typically in Kotlin (and of course Java), but Android OS doesn't contain a large percentage of Java. That's C/C++ land and now increasingly Rust.

[singhrac]

I think this is an incredibly kind take for CMake... what about projects that automatically generate bindings (like swig), or attempt to find system-installed header files (like CUDA)? Look at, for example, pytorch (huge amounts of autogenerated code via ATen, at least a few years ago). In my experience C++ projects rarely live in a vacuum and projects build up cruft very easily.