Issues using Armadillo as a library with CLion & CMake on Windows 10 - c++

Question

I'm trying to use the Armadillo library inside a CLion project on Windows 10, but when I try to build via Reload CMake Project (using the built-in CMake compiler), this error appears after a short while:
CMake Error at C:/Program Files/JetBrains/CLion 2017.2.3/bin/cmake/share/cmake-3.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:137 (message):
Could NOT find Armadillo (missing: ARMADILLO_LIBRARY) (found version
"0.0.0")
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/Program Files/JetBrains/CLion 2017.2.3/bin/cmake/share/cmake-3.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:377 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
C:/Program Files/JetBrains/CLion 2017.2.3/bin/cmake/share/cmake-3.8/Modules/FindArmadillo.cmake:77 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
CMakeLists.txt:4 (find_package)
I've downloaded the library's content from here and moved it into a folder located at ${PROGRAM FILES}\Armadillo. To use it in my project, I used the FindArmadillo module like this:
find_package(Armadillo REQUIRED) # this is where the error occurs
include_directories(${ARMADILLO_INCLUDE_DIRS})
...
add_executable(MyProject ${SOURCE_FILES})
target_link_libraries(MABE ${ARMADILLO_LIBRARIES})
Is there something I am missing? Do I have to compile the library (or something like that) before I can use it in my project? Or did I maybe mess up the download?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

not sure if this is still relevant, but for a small project you can save your unzipped files in your project root directory and then add this line to your CMakeLists.txt:
target_include_directories(YOURPROJECTNAME PUBLIC armadillo/include)
I am just a beginner and found this to be the easiest solution to add many libraries :)
Hope this helps!