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Downloading CPM.cmake in CMake

Lars Melchior edited this page May 1, 2020 · 17 revisions

As outlined in the README, there is more than one way to include CPM.cmake in your project. In addition to using the command line, you can use CMake to download a specific release of CPM.cmake to your project and include it automatically.

set(CPM_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/cmake/CPM.cmake")
set(CPM_VERSION 0.22)

if(NOT EXISTS ${CPM_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION})
  message(STATUS "Downloading CPM.cmake")
  file(DOWNLOAD https://github.com/TheLartians/CPM.cmake/releases/download/v${CPM_VERSION}/CPM.cmake ${CPM_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION})
endif(NOT EXISTS ${CPM_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION})

include(${CPM_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION})

To update the version of CPM.cmake that is included, just update the CPM_VERSION variable with the correct version number, omitting the v prefix.

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