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+include_directories (${libtransport_SOURCE_DIR}/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl) 
+FILE(GLOB SRC *.cpp libtwitcurl/*.cpp Requests/*.cpp)
+add_executable(spectrum_twitter_backend ${SRC})
+#add_executable(parser TwitterResponseParser.cpp test.cpp)
+target_link_libraries(spectrum_twitter_backend curl transport pthread sqlite3 ${Boost_LIBRARIES} ${SWIFTEN_LIBRARY} ${LOG4CXX_LIBRARIES})
+#target_link_libraries(parser curl transport pthread sqlite3 ${Boost_LIBRARIES} ${SWIFTEN_LIBRARY} ${LOG4CXX_LIBRARIES})