What about CMake?

[golxzn]

Would you like to add CMake support? It's not so hard for header-only library
You can use this tool for making cmake project just in a few commands

[wxinix]

Cmake? co-ask.

[eyalz800]

Acknowledged the ask, I will free some time for this but I can’t promise it’s soon because I see this as a nice to have

[Traveller23]

It's a header only library, it doesn't need to "make" itself, so in my opinion cmake is not necessary.
This is how I reference it in my cmake project:

target_include_directories(my_test SYSTEM PRIVATE C:/Libraries/zpp_bits)

You could replace the path with variable ${ZPP_BITS_PATH}, and then provide this variable to the cmake command, for example:

-DZPP_BITS_PATH="C:/Libraries/zpp_bits"

Anyway, you need a way to find the library, even with cmake.

[wxinix]

CMake is needed for the test cases

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[Traveller23]

CMake is needed for the test cases

Well, indeed it is.

[eyalz800]

But the test cases are not a dependency in your project

[wxinix]

not true if I want to learn the code and wish to contribute it, or deeply customize it.

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[golxzn]

Well, CMake might be overkill for header only library, but as @wxinix said, it'll be great to cover code by tests.

But the test cases are not a dependency in your project

But the case that I really want to achieve is cloning project during configuration step. I usually use CPM for managing project's dependencies. And it's pretty uncomfortable for me to load and insert some third_party stuff to the project. I enjoy to load dependencies into the build folder, which is ignored by git 🍰

[eyalz800]

Closed due to inactivity, as mentioned in above comments cmake transparently works with header only.