Hello, I am trying to install a third-party library cJSON with CMake’s FetchContent and I managed to do it but I find it strange that the header files are not included in the cjson target. Usually the developer would use target_include_directories on his/her exported target so consumers don’t have t…

Here’s such a project: https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/common-superbuild/ There’s excess stuff here for other use cases, but you generally just ExternalProject_Add with the instructions for each project and make sure their DEPENDS align.

[FetchContent] How to include header files of a third-party project whose target does not provide them

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ben.boeckel (Ben Boeckel (Kitware)) December 29, 2023, 2:55pm 2

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