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+# The following four lines of boilerplate have to be in your project's CMakeLists
+# in this exact order for cmake to work correctly
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
+
+set(MAIN_SRCS main/exception_example_main.cpp)
+
+include($ENV{IDF_PATH}/tools/cmake/project.cmake)
+project(cpp_exceptions_example)