Re: A general way to install all dependent libraries when compiling Emacs from its git master source code.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 21:05:06 +0800
> 
> It's well known that Emacs relies on a number of libraries for its
> functionality. On the other hand, different operating systems have
> different package/library management tools and even the same library
> may have different names when installed on different operating
> systems. It would be handy if we had a common way to install all the
> dependent libraries when compiling Emacs from its Git Master source.
> For this purpose, I've noticed the vcpkg tool [1]. But I'm not sure if
> there are some people here have some experiences for using this or the
> similar tools to solve this problem mentioned above.

This is unlikely to happen because the libraries Emacs uses are also
used by many other software packages.  So people tend to install them
whenever they have the first package which needs a library, and not
just for Emacs.