I've always preferred Stephen Brennan's approach mentioned here: https://brennan.io/2020/05/08/meson/ https://brennan.io/2020/05/08/meson/ This is the approach

I've always preferred Stephen Brennan's approach mentioned here: https://brennan.io/2020/05/08/meson/ https://brennan.io/2020/05/08/meson/ This is the approach I take with my C and C++ projects, although I've swapped meson out for CMake. I still have my CMake projects generate pkg-config files as well so that I don't force CMake on any consuming projects (just because I suffered with CMake doesn't mean you have to, although you can as well :))