C/C++ library discovery and building is...
...tedious.
But it's stories like these that make me love even these deficiencies of the C++ ecosystem.
It does mean reinventing the wheel more often than developers who exclusively code in Rust, Python, Go, Java, C#, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby, OCaml, Haskell, ... *sigh* (wipes tear away) *sniffle*
But at least the risc of catching, and distributing, something nasty is lessened.