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Suppose the make fails: $ make Launch it instead with make VERBOSE=1 to see the commands executed. Then directly run the linker or compiler command that you'll see. Try to make it work by adding necessary flags or libraries. Then figure out what to change, so CMake itself can pass correct argum...

Once a CMake project is initialized via project(), the output verbosity of the resulting build script can be adjusted via: CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE This variable can be set via CMake's command line when configuring a project: cmake -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON <PATH_TO_PROJECT_ROOT> For G...

Note: The shown CMake error messages already include the fix for "non-standard" library/tool installation paths. The following examples just demonstrate more verbose CMake find_package() outputs. CMake internally supported Package/Module If the following code (replace the FindBoost modul...