Where should I put third-party libraries?
问题 I contribute to a decent-sized C++ project with a number of dependencies. The problem is, the project contains the source of all of its dependencies (e.g. pcre, zlib, etc.). I want to trim the project down to just what's relevant to the program itself. Is there some relatively standard way to compile these libraries and put them somewhere, and have their header files also easily accessible? For what it's worth, I'm using Windows 7, and I'm developing using VS2005. I'm also a complete noob