Im glad it's not just me. I've spent weeks learning basic C to contribute a few patches to my favorite OSS project.

I swear it's taken me longer to figure out how to build and include libraries with CMake than learn C. And it still makes no sense to me. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with C/C++ package management.

I gave up on learning the build system. I recreated a working build setup in Code::Blocks UI then exported it to a makefile. Then exported that to CMake and copy pasted shit into the original build setup until it worked. Fuck it. C library management is harder than the language