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If your project uses CMake, you could

* add the structopt repository as a git submodule to your project

* add something like `add_subdirectory(structopt)` to your top-level CMake script

* add structopt to your target_link_libraries

and you're good to go.

If this is something you do in CMake projects, check out FetchContent_Declare — newer CMake versions have this command which downloads a git repository and caches it.

I much prefer this to manually downloading the files, even for header-only libraries. The command provided a nice declarative way of adding a dependency.

Thanks!

You could do that if you wanted to use git submodules as a sort of poor man's package manager.

But given that it's a header-only library, you can also just download the files, put them in your repo somewhere, and #include them.

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