The package cairo can be imported via CMake FindPkgConfig module: # cairo find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED) pkg_check_modules(cairo REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET cairo) target_link_libraries(main PkgConfig::cairo) # cairo-script-interpreter find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED) pkg_check_modules(cairo-script-interpreter REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET cairo-script-interpreter) target_link_libraries(main PkgConfig::cairo-script-interpreter)