[eddtests]

Someone more experienced at C can jump in and correct me but from my understanding you're correct, you download the files. You could use git to create subrepos for dependencies in a directory in your project, too. When I've asked this question before those were the answers I got.

[Alifatisk]

I saw a project called conan.io, looked interesting. I know Microsoft created vcpkg.io aswell.

I’m too used to Ruby and how gems are installed, I think I’m looking for a similar experience in C where you find the lib you want, install it and include it in your code.

[eddtests]

Yeah I looked at conan and you can specify git projects to install which is nice. I expect vcpkg to be great for a Windows / Visual Studio setup but I'm on Mac/Linux so haven't really looked. Even with Conan I've not found something as nice as gems/pip/npm for ease of use and it's one of the reasons I end up looking at Rust - because cargo is so familiar to me from a Python background.

Edit: I saw a project recently written in C++ and they had subrepos in a `deps/` directory and then linked to those, so it was all manually managed. If I were to make a new project in C++ I think that's how I'd go too.