Abseil Support for CMake

By Jon Cohen, Abseil Engineer

CMake is a popular tool used to build multi-platform C++ projects. Abseil has had unofficial CMake support for some time, but support has never been as robust as that for Bazel. We are happy to announce that Abseil now fully supports the CMake build system.

Abseil supports CMake through the add_subdirectory command for full source inclusion, or by local installation into your project. Future Abseil LTS releases will be supported for installation in system-wide locations (such as /usr/local, CMake’s default install location).

We hope that this support will make it easier for users to adopt Abseil and for package managers to successfully and easily package Abseil.

For more information on getting Abseil working with CMake, consult our CMake Quickstart