In a previous post, I detailed involved and frustrating process I needed to go through to compile OpenCV as part of my application. You can see the post in this link.
All the trouble I describe there could have been avoided by using Hunter - a CMake based package manager for C++ projects. The idea is to have a sort-of repository of configuration and install scripts for different packages that would handle configuring 3rd-party dependencies (and their dependencies) for your project. Kinda like NuGet for .Net, but for C++. Just take a look at the list of supported libraries - I think it is awesome!

Show me the code!

It is really simple to use Hunter. First, you need to download CMake script from here, include it before project() statement and then run HunterGate() initialization function of the package manager (The exact URL and SHA1 for the parameters can be taken from the releases page of Hunter). In this sample, I am going to install OpenCV and use it in a very simple test app.
So, after all this, the root CMakeLists.txt should look similar to this:

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cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.8)

include("cmake/HunterGate.cmake")
HunterGate(
URL "https://github.com/cpp-pm/hunter/archive/v0.23.240.tar.gz"
SHA1 "ca19f3769e6c80cfdd19d8b12ba5102c27b074e0"
)

project ("HunterDemo")

hunter_add_package(OpenCV)
add_subdirectory ("PrintImageSizeUtil")

Then, the CMakeLists.txt in the subdirectory where we want to use OpenCV would look like this:

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cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.8)

find_package(OpenCV REQUIRED)
add_executable (PrintImageSizeUtil "PrintImageSizeUtil.cpp" "PrintImageSizeUtil.h")
target_link_libraries(PrintImageSizeUtil PRIVATE ${OpenCV_LIBS})

Well, thats it! It will take some time for Hunter to download and compile all the needed dependencies, but when CMake configuration stage completes, the test project will simply compile - the whole experience of using Hunter almost feels like using NuGet, it feels really effortless.
You can take a look at the source code of this demo at this repository.