This is the gold standard. Instead of hardcoding paths, you write:
One of the first hurdles every C++ developer faces when moving from a simple "Hello World" to a real-world project is dependency management. You need logging, networking, graphics, or maybe just a handy utility library. But how do you tell your IDE and compiler where to find these external libraries? clion add external library
Example: Adding the popular fmt library: This is the gold standard
By Alex Mitchell | Estimated read time: 8 minutes clion add external library
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.