# CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH

Semicolon-separated list of directories specifying installation prefixes to be searched by the `find_package()`, `find_program()`, `find_library()`, `find_file()`, and `find_path()` commands. Each command will add appropriate subdirectories (like `bin`, `lib`, or `include`) as specified in its own documentation.

By default this is empty. It is intended to be set by the project.

There is also an environment variable `CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH`, which is used as an additional list of search prefixes.

See also `CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH`, `CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH`, `CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH`, `CMAKE_PROGRAM_PATH`, and `CMAKE_IGNORE_PATH`.