Continue CMake support improvement

- Update documentation
- Remove type target
- Remove typos
- simplify target
- improve 1-1 matchign with Bazel targets
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### Recommended usage : incorporate Abseil into an CMake project
We recommended to build and use abseil in the same way than googletest
( https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/googletest/README.md )
For API / ABI compatibility reasons, it is recommended to build
and use abseil in a subdirectory of your project or as an embedded
dependency
* Download abseil and copy it in a sub-directory in your project.
This is similar to the recommended usage of the googletest framework
( https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/googletest/README.md )
* Or add abseil as a git-submodule in your project
Build and use step-by-step
You can then use the cmake `add_subdirectory()` command to include
abseil directly and use the abseil targets in your project.
Abseil requires CCTZ and the googletest framework. Consequently,
1- Download abseil and copy it in a sub-directory in your project.
or add abseil as a git-submodule in your project
2- If not done yet, download and copy in your project the two dependencies of
abseil `cctz` and `googletest`
* cctz https://github.com/google/cctz
* googletest https://github.com/google/googletest
3- You can then use the cmake command `add_subdirectory()` to include
abseil directly and use the abseil targets in your project.
Note: Abseil requires CCTZ and the googletest framework. Consequently,
the targets `gtest`, `gtest_main`, `gmock` and `cctz` need
to be declared in your project before including abseil with `add_subdirectory`.
You can find instructions on how to get and build these projects at these
URL :
* cctz https://github.com/google/cctz
* googletest https://github.com/google/googletest
to be declared in your project before including abseil with `add_subdirectory`.
Here is a short CMakeLists.txt example of a possible project file
using abseil
project(my_project)
add_subdirectory(googletest)
add_subdirectory(cctz)
add_subdirectory(abseil-cpp)
4- Add the absl:: target you wish to use to the `target_link_libraries()`
section of your executable or of your library
Here is a short CMakeLists.txt example of a possible project file
using abseil
project(my_project)
add_subdirectory(googletest)
add_subdirectory(cctz)
add_subdirectory(abseil-cpp)
add_executable(my_exe source.cpp)
target_link_libraries(my_exe absl::base absl::synchronization absl::strings)
You will find here a non exhaustive list of absl public targets
absl::base
absl::algorithm
absl::container
absl::debugging
absl::memory
absl::meta
absl::numeric
absl::strings
absl::synchronization
absl::time
absl::utility
add_executable(my_exe source.cpp)
target_link_libraries(my_exe base synchronization strings)