# Including functions/macros with target export ?
**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/including-functions-macros-with-target-export/2440
**Category:** Usage
**Created:** [December 29, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/including-functions-macros-with-target-export/2440 "2020-12-29T02:35:54Z")
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### Author:  [@Nicholas\_Yue](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/Nicholas_Yue)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/including-functions-macros-with-target-export/2440/1 "2020-12-29T02:35:54Z")
Hi,
I am able to get export(TARGET …) working and have generated working \*Config.cmake file
There are some cmake macros and functions that I would like to include for the convenience of the developers using the package.
How should I go about including/deploying them so that once a developer call find\_package(mypackage …), those functions/macros will be available to them ?
Cheers
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### Author:  [@craig.scott](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/craig.scott)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2020, 5:25am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/including-functions-macros-with-target-export/2440/2 "2020-12-29T05:25:42Z")
Do not get your `export(TARGET...)` command to write to `*Config.cmake` directly (or `install(TARGETS...)` for that matter). Instead, make those commands write their output to a file that your own hand-written `*Config.cmake` file will pull in with an `include()` call. Your hand-written `*Config.cmake` file can then define whatever functions and macros it needs to. For example:
```cmake
export(TARGETS ... FILE MyProjTargets.cmake ...)
```
Then your hand-written `MyProjectConfig.cmake` might do something like this:
```cmake
include(MyProjTargets.cmake)
# Define whatever functions and macros you want here too
```
In the above, I’ve provided a direct answer to your question. But the use of `export(TARGETS)` is not all that common. Are you trying to get another build to re-use your project’s build tree directly (i.e. without installing it)? If not, then `export(TARGETS)` is probably not the right way to go about whatever you’re trying to do. It is much more typically to be using `install(TARGETS ... EXPORT ...)` and then `install(EXPORT ...)`.
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### Author:  [@Nicholas\_Yue](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/Nicholas_Yue)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2020, 5:29am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/including-functions-macros-with-target-export/2440/3 "2020-12-29T05:29:37Z")
Thank you for the insight. I will apply your recommendations.