# What's the best way to include headers from FetchContent deps?

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**Created:** [December 12, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/whats-the-best-way-to-include-headers-from-fetchcontent-deps/7047 "2022-12-12T01:04:31Z")
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### Author: ![benthevining](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/benthevining/32/1924_2.png) [@benthevining](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/benthevining)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/whats-the-best-way-to-include-headers-from-fetchcontent-deps/7047/2 "2022-12-12T01:21:15Z")

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Just use targets. Your support libraries should have targets that you use like:

```cmake
target_link_libraries (aoc-2022 PRIVATE cgs fruity)

```

and that should be it. The `cgs` and `fruity` targets should set their own include directories, which propagate to targets that link against them.

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