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		no_wizard on Feb 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020) How do you do package management in C/C++? I have only used pip, cargo, npm (well yarn and pnpm mostly) and composer. Big off putting aspect of learning C/C++ is that I can’t grok how shared libraries work very well

3836293648 on Feb 26, 2023 [–]

A mix of actual package managers, distro packages and just cloning the library into a 3rd_party folder in your project

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