Investigate and decide on build systems

• Which alternatives to Conan do we have? VCpackage, Bazel, something else? None?
• Compared alternatives to Conan regarding usability and platform independence
• Discussed in small group and decided how to proceed with cpplib

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https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/master/src/cpp#bazel

Bazel is the primary build system used by the core gRPC development team. Bazel provides fast builds and it easily handles dependencies that support bazel.

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mentioned in issue #73 (closed)

Another one: build2

• A vcpkg-biased talk at cppcon 22: https://youtu.be/Ae9EePOIouU?si=s6-V7IgXg1FGGYvM
• Tour of build systems at ccpcon 23: https://youtu.be/Sh3uayB9kHs?si=XJfr4rXN5iEHiwGY
• comparing vcpkg and conan at ndc 2022: https://youtu.be/b4gJtXfrNfU?si=L9OFcRo40jwDF5Pn
• Manage code dependencies at work with new vcpkg features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vXOKkv3ND0

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gRPC with VCPKG: https://github.com/advra/grpc-vcpkg-boilerplate-example

In this example, calling protoc is done in the CMakeLists.txt of the proto folder, not the actual application/library.

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