Before building take a look at cppan.yml file. Create a local copy of it in your project structure.

Prerequisites:

1. Download git, cmake and add them to PATH
2. Download the latest CPPAN (https://cppan.org/) client from https://cppan.org/client/
3. Add cppan to PATH too.

git clone https://github.com/cppan/tesseract_example tesseract_example
cd tesseract_example/with_cmake
cppan
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release

Prerequisites:

1. Install git, cmake, the latest CPPAN (https://cppan.org/) client.
2. Run

git clone https://github.com/cppan/tesseract_example tesseract_example
cd tesseract_example/with_cmake
cppan
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j4

1. Download tesseract english data to tessdata dir near the main binary.
2. Copy test image phototest.tif to working dir.
3. Run main phototest.tif