How to solve undefined reference error?

[AumDhabalia]

This is the CMakeLists.txt file for generating build for simple hello_window program of opengl.
`
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 4.0.0)
project(hello_world VERSION 1.0.0)

cmake_policy(SET CMP0072 NEW)

set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake)

find_package(OpenGL REQUIRED)
find_package(glfw3 REQUIRED)

add_executable(hello_world src/main.cpp src/glad.c)

target_include_directories(hello_world PRIVATE dependencies)

target_link_libraries(hello_world ${GLFW3_LIBRARY} OpenGL::GL)
`

Whenever I try to build and run I receive error
[main] Building folder: d:/cpp_programs/test_opengl_project/build [build] Starting build [proc] Executing command: "C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.EXE" --build d:/cpp_programs/test_opengl_project/build --config Debug --target all -j 12 -- [build] [ 33%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/hello_world.dir/src/main.cpp.obj [build] [ 66%] Building C object CMakeFiles/hello_world.dir/src/glad.c.obj [build] [100%] Linking CXX executable hello_world.exe [build] CMakeFiles\hello_world.dir/objects.a(main.cpp.obj): In functionmain':
[build] D:/cpp_programs/test_opengl_project/src/main.cpp:9: undefined reference to glfwInit' [build] D:/cpp_programs/test_opengl_project/src/main.cpp:16: undefined reference to glfwCreateWindow'
[build] D:/cpp_programs/test_opengl_project/src/main.cpp:19: undefined reference to glfwMakeContextCurrent' [build] D:/cpp_programs/test_opengl_project/src/main.cpp:22: undefined reference to glfwGetProcAddress'
[build] D:/cpp_programs/test_opengl_project/src/main.cpp:24: undefined reference to glfwTerminate' [build] D:/cpp_programs/test_opengl_project/src/main.cpp:31: undefined reference to glfwWindowShouldClose'
[build] D:/cpp_programs/test_opengl_project/src/main.cpp:33: undefined reference to glfwPollEvents' [build] D:/cpp_programs/test_opengl_project/src/main.cpp:35: undefined reference to glfwSwapBuffers'
[build] D:/cpp_programs/test_opengl_project/src/main.cpp:38: undefined reference to glfwTerminate' [build] collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status [build] mingw32-make.exe[2]: *** [hello_world.exe] Error 1 [build] CMakeFiles\hello_world.dir\build.make:119: recipe for target 'hello_world.exe' failed [build] mingw32-make.exe[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/hello_world.dir/all] Error 2 [build] CMakeFiles\Makefile2:85: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/hello_world.dir/all' failed [build] Makefile:89: recipe for target 'all' failed [build] mingw32-make.exe: *** [all] Error 2 [proc] The command: "C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.EXE" --build d:/cpp_programs/test_opengl_project/build --config Debug --target all -j 12 -- exited with code: 2 [driver] Build completed: 00:00:01.295 [build] Build finished with exit code 2
I am using vscode as editor, mingw for c/c++ libraries and windows os as platform. I have referred to this video solution but no luck.

Need solution for this.

[yashchaurasia667]

I also use vscode with mingw64 and a cmake setup and usually do something like this

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.21)
project(blending LANGUAGES C CXX)

find_package(OpenGL REQUIRED)

set(INCLUDE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../include")
set(LIB     "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../lib")
set(SRC     "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}")

# ---- Library with actual compiled code ----
add_library(depends STATIC
  "${LIB}/glad.c"
  "${LIB}/shader.cpp"
  "${LIB}/vertexBuffer.cpp"
  "${LIB}/vertexBufferLayout.cpp"
  "${LIB}/indexBuffer.cpp"
  "${LIB}/vertexArray.cpp"
  "${LIB}/camera.cpp"
  "${LIB}/texture.cpp"
  "${LIB}/utils.cpp"
  "${LIB}/mesh.cpp"
  "${LIB}/model.cpp"
)

target_include_directories(depends
  PUBLIC
    "${INCLUDE}"
)

target_compile_options(depends
  PRIVATE
    -Wall
    -Wextra
    -g
)

target_link_libraries(depends
  PUBLIC
    OpenGL::GL
    "${LIB}/libglfw3.a"
    "${LIB}/libassimp.a"
    "${LIB}/libzlibstatic.a"
    kernel32
    user32
    gdi32
)

# ---- Executable ----
add_executable(
  ${PROJECT_NAME}
    "${SRC}/main.cpp"
)

target_link_libraries(
  ${PROJECT_NAME}
    PRIVATE
      depends
)