bake

No need, bake can link with your projects like it can link with any other C/C++ library: https://github.com/SanderMertens/bake#can-i-link-with-non-ba...

Thanks for the comprehensive list of alternatives, there's some that I wasn't even aware of ;-) A few observations: - Bake has been used across platforms for large projects and its declarative approach held up pretty well. Note that being declarative does not mean a configuration cannot contain conditional attributes (which bake supports). You need conditionals for things to work properly on different platforms, like documented here: https://github.com/SanderMertens/bake#can-i-link-with-non-ba... - I share the frustration, but I do not share your conclusion. Bake takes a refreshing approach to package management in that it doesn't try to do too much, which is perhaps what turned you off in other projects. It doesn't even compete with package managers like brew or vcpkg (which is not a build system, you might want to correct that). I would

The comparison to CMake isn't apt: https://github.com/SanderMertens/bake/blob/master/README.md#... CMake projects allow proper recursive inclusion, so this would be sufficient to include 'bar' and link against it: add_subdirectory(bar) target_link_libraries(Foo bar) ...this only assumes that somewhere in the 'bar' directory, 'add_library(bar .....)' is called. Alternately, one can (and often does) use a 'find_package(bar)' call instead of 'add_subdirectory' to pull in a library installed on the system somewhere. The main difference seems to be that bake is configured with a particular json schema while CMake is configured with scripts written in the CMake language. I'm skeptical that the json approach stays as same as advertised once large and distributed organizations use the tool seriously. At scale, I expect a bake json to res

https://www.github.com/SanderMertens/bake is a fork of https://github.com/cortoproject/bake... Is there any reason why the title link doesn't go to the original?

Thanks for finding the formatting issue, fixed it! You don't need to specify all dependencies "the bake way". If you want to link with a non-bake C library (like pthread or dl), you can configure it like shown here: https://github.com/SanderMertens/bake#can-i-link-with-non-ba... It is also possible to wrap existing libraries in bake projects. This section of the README describes how: https://github.com/SanderMertens/bake/blob/master/README.md#...