Downloading CPM.cmake in CMake

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_DOWNLOAD_VERSION 0.25.1)

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

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.

Note that downloading CPM.camke will not allow you to configure your project when offline, even if all dependencies are available in the CPM_SOURCE_CACHE.