With CMake you can build statically in a very reproducible cross platform way if you use Hunter and toolchain files.

the tools are all there - just they're not popular and aren't widely used

I wrote a bit of an old intro to the workflow: https://geokon-gh.github.io/hunterintro.html

This is an example of a project that's well setup using this pattern: https://github.com/elucideye/drishti

And having things work dynamically ... well that's what package maintainers due. It seems inherently very fragile. Developers only build test and develop against whatever dependency versions they have locally. you can't test against every version under the sun