Using something like CMAKE for dependency management?

[zya]

What is the recommended way to manage the dependencies at this point?
Was something like CMAKE ever considered?

[tcarpent]

There is no recommended way to manage the dependencies.

As you can see, pre-compiled dependencies are provided (at least for osx and linux).
I also provided the shell scripts I used for compiling these libs. You can adapt to your needs.
It's not that complicated, but not trivial either.

I am not using Cmake.
But feel free to contribute if you think you can provide Cmake files.