To be fair, C predates dependency hell. It was either there or it wasn't. C++ has less of an excuse, but it was just object oriented concepts taped to C so it's no surprise it was also missing dependency management.

Now with cmake, gnu-make, meson, gradel, and the world of metabuild systems that wrap those, nothing will change. It it does, it might as well kick start world war 3.

You forgot automake.sh to the list of ways to solve the problem that still suck

Rust and Cargo enters the room.

Even C# has something that few people use, but it has something.

Huh? Are you claiming few people use NuGet?

I remember having to use something called Conan once, which was also quite broken. Though the devs were fast to respond with fixes and workarounds.

That's odd... all the projects i use document their install process fairly well, most of them using either cmake or autotools.

The only "terrible" scenarios i occasionally encounter is, yes, trying to automate the android toolchain - i blame Google though, not C/C++ as the Android toolchain is intentionally designed to be used with Android Studio and trying to veer of that is increasingly harder.

Even cross-compiling for windows isn't that bad.

Everyone who writes C# uses Nuget.