Clion — Add External Library

find_package(Boost 1.75 REQUIRED COMPONENTS filesystem system) if(Boost_FOUND) target_link_libraries(my_app PRIVATE Boost::filesystem Boost::system) endif() CMake will automatically search standard system paths, or paths you hint via -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH . Not every library provides CMake configs. For those, you can use pkg-config (common on Linux):

find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED) pkg_check_modules(LIBUSB REQUIRED libusb-1.0) target_link_libraries(my_app PRIVATE $LIBUSB_LIBRARIES) target_include_directories(my_app PRIVATE $LIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIRS) Best for: Automatically downloading libraries from GitHub during configuration. clion add external library

vcpkg install fmt And use it in CMake like magic: find_package(Boost 1

Now go forth and link without fear! Have a library that just won’t cooperate? Drop the error message in the comments, and I’ll help you debug it. and I’ll help you debug it.