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Use the module name cgalto discover versions available and to load the application.

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The documentation recommends using CMake when building code that uses the CGAL library: Configuring and Building Programs Using CGAL and provides some helper scripts to create the make file.

Below is just one (of probably a number of) ways to build an application that uses the CGAL library.

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Using CGAL on Unix (Linux, macOS, ...) page provides a good introduction to using cgal. This page talks about “a few required core components“ defining cmake, boost, gmp and mpfr All but cmake are loaded alongside the cgal module , meaning you will have to separately load a version of cmake.