The package libdatrie can be used via CMake: find_path(LIBDATRIE_INCLUDE_DIR datrie/trie.h) find_library(LIBDATRIE_LIBRARY NAMES datrie) target_include_directories(main PRIVATE "${LIBDATRIE_INCLUDE_DIR}") target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE "${LIBDATRIE_LIBRARY}") The package libdatrie can be imported via CMake FindPkgConfig module: find_package(PkgConfig) pkg_check_modules(LIBDATRIE REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET datrie-0.2) target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE PkgConfig::LIBDATRIE)