webthing-cpp is header-only and can be used from CMake via: find_path(WEBTHING_CPP_INCLUDE_DIRS "bw/webthing/webthing.hpp") target_include_directories(main PRIVATE ${WEBTHING_CPP_INCLUDE_DIRS}) However it requires find_package(nlohmann_json_schema_validator CONFIG REQUIRED) target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE nlohmann_json_schema_validator::validator) find_package(unofficial-uwebsockets CONFIG REQUIRED) target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE unofficial::uwebsockets::uwebsockets)