That often doesn't work on windows. Autotools are brittle at the best of times even on the same platform. Makefiles aren't actually portable (there are many flavours of make). none of that is standardised in any way, no software that I have installed in the last 10 years has had it as its install instructions for anything other than development.

It also doesn't handle dependencies, if the library uses libfoo@v0.0.1 and I have libfoo@v0.0.2 installed, this will happily attempt to continue. This isn't a solved problem, by any stretch of the imagination.