SLslimsag·Sep 8, 2021
I totally 100% agree. "Getting started" with a C/C++ project is a huge pain and IMO where most people get stuck and give up on their weekend project.
I'm working on a game engine in Zig[0], and I've been able to package up GLFW, write a build.zig file that `git clone`s all of the third-party system dependencies so that anyone can just:
const glfw = @import("glfw/build.zig");
...
lib.addPackagePath("glfw", "glfw/src/main.zig");
glfw.link(b, lib, .{});
And have GLFW building (and cross-compiling!) for their project, without installing anything other than Zig and Git. No XCode. No `apt-get install ...`. Nothing. Just `zig` and `git` binaries. Zig is the C compiler and builds the GLFW source, and I have repositories with the required prebuilt system libs for cross compilation.
[0] https://github.com/hexops/mach
In Maintain It with Zig