# cmake FetchContent

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-fetchcontent/7658
**Category:** Usage
**Created:** [March 12, 2023, 2:05am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-fetchcontent/7658 "2023-03-12T02:05:29Z")
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### Author: ![ashaheen](https://discourse.cmake.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@ashaheen](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ashaheen)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2023, 2:05am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-fetchcontent/7658/1 "2023-03-12T02:05:29Z")

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Hi,  
I am trying to use my private repo in CMakeFetch, but getting errors. Could someone help me with that. It works fine with googletests

Here’s the sample cmake for cmake fetchContent

```auto
include(FetchContent)
FetchContent_Declare(
    googletest
    URL https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/refs/tags/v1.13.0.zip
)
FetchContent_Declare(
    private-repo
    URL https://github.com/{username}/private-repo.git
    GIT_TAG "main"
)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(googletest private-repo)

```

Here’s the output

```auto
 1>Checking Build System
  1>Creating directories for 'private-repo-populate'
  2>Building Custom Rule C:/Users/username/Documents/project/private-repo/cmake/_deps/private-repo-subbuild/CMakeLists.txt
  Performing download step (download, verify and extract) for 'private-repo-populate'
  -- Downloading...
     dst='C:/Users/username/Documents/project/private-repo/cmake/_deps/private-repo-subbuild/private-repo-populate-prefix/src/archive.tar'
     timeout='none'
     inactivity timeout='none'
  -- Using src='https://github.com/username/private-repo.git'
  -- [download 100% complete]
  CMake Error at private-repo-subbuild/private-repo-populate-prefix/src/private-repo-populate-stamp/download-private-repo-populate.cmake:170 (message):
    Each download failed!

CUSTOMBUILD : error : downloading 'https://github.com/username/private-repo.git' failed [C:\Users\username\Documents\project\private-repo\cmake\_deps\private-repo-subbuild\private-repo-populate.vcxproj]
            status_code: 22
            status_string: "HTTP response code said error"
            log:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(247,5): error MSB8066: Custom build for 'C:\Users\username\Documents\project\private-repo\cmake\_deps\private-repo-subbuild\CMakeFiles\933d9243315ce617922dc291f08a99cd\private-repo-populate-download.rule;C:\Users\username\Documents\project\private-repo\cmake\_deps\private-repo-subbuild\CMakeFiles\933d9243315ce617922dc291f08a99cd\private-repo-populate-update.rule;C:\Users\username\Documents\project\private-repo\cmake\_deps\private-repo-subbuild\CMakeFiles\933d9243315ce617922dc291f08a99cd\private-repo-populate-patch.rule;C:\Users\username\Documents\project\private-repo\cmake\_deps\private-repo-subbuild\CMakeFiles\933d9243315ce617922dc291f08a99cd\private-repo-populate-configure.rule;C:\Users\username\Documents\project\private-repo\cmake\_deps\private-repo-subbuild\CMakeFiles\933d9243315ce617922dc291f08a99cd\private-repo-populate-build.rule;C:\Users\username\Documents\project\private-repo\cmake\_deps\private-repo-subbuild\CMakeFiles\933d9243315ce617922dc291f08a99cd\private-repo-populate-install.rule;C:\Users\username\Documents\project\private-repo\cmake\_deps\private-repo-subbuild\CMakeFiles\933d9243315ce617922dc291f08a99cd\private-repo-populate-test.rule;C:\Users\username\Documents\project\private-repo\cmake\_deps\private-repo-subbuild\CMakeFiles\8253c863f0c2dd0189e066d3d4856af0\private-repo-populate-complete.rule;C:\Users\username\Documents\project\private-repo\cmake\_deps\private-repo-subbuild\CMakeFiles\b1866fbb832704ffa7e45ddc220cc837\private-repo-populate.rule' exited with code 1. [C:\Users\username\Documents\project\private-repo\cmake\_deps\private-repo-subbuild\private-repo-populate.vcxproj]

CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.26/Modules/FetchContent.cmake:1622 (message):
  Build step for private-repo failed: 1
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.26/Modules/FetchContent.cmake:1762:EVAL:2 (__FetchContent_directPopulate)
  C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.26/Modules/FetchContent.cmake:1762 (cmake_language)
  C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.26/Modules/FetchContent.cmake:1976 (FetchContent_Populate)
  test/CMakeLists.txt:15 (FetchContent_MakeAvailable)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

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### Author: ![go2sh](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/go2sh/32/2606_2.png) [@go2sh](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/go2sh)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2023, 7:36am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-fetchcontent/7658/2 "2023-03-12T07:36:28Z")

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Use GIT\_REPOSITORY for git repositories and not URL. 😉