This gist shows how to use find_package with ExternalProject and ExternalProject_add in CMake.

Using find_package with ExternalProject in CMake.cmake

# --------------------------------------------------

function (build_external_project target file_name)

    set(CMAKELIST_CONTENT "
        cmake_minimum_required(VERSION ${CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED_VERSION})

        project(build_external_project)

        file(MD5 \"${file_name}\" FILE_HASH)

        include(ExternalProject)
        ExternalProject_add(${target}
            URL \"${file_name}\"
            URL_MD5 \${FILE_HASH}
            CMAKE_GENERATOR \"${CMAKE_GENERATOR}\"
            CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM \"${CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM}\"
            CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET \"${CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET}\"
            CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE \"${CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE}\"
            CMAKE_ARGS ${ARGN})

        add_custom_target(build_external_project)
        add_dependencies(build_external_project ${target})
    ")

    set(TARGET_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/ExternalProjects/${target}")

    file(WRITE "${TARGET_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt" "${CMAKELIST_CONTENT}")

    file(MAKE_DIRECTORY "${TARGET_DIR}" "${TARGET_DIR}/build")

    execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
        -G "${CMAKE_GENERATOR}"
        -A "${CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM}"
        -T "${CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET}"
        ..
        WORKING_DIRECTORY "${TARGET_DIR}/build")

    execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
        --build .
        --config ${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}
        WORKING_DIRECTORY "${TARGET_DIR}/build")

endfunction()

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

set(THIRD_PARTY_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}")
set(THIRD_PARTY_INSTALL_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/ThirdParty")

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# OpenCV.

set(OPENCV_OPTIONS "")

list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_1394=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_ADE=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_CUDA=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_EIGEN=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_FFMPEG=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_IPP=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_ITT=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_JASPER=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_JPEG=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_OPENCL=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_OPENEXR=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_OPENJPEG=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_PNG=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_PROTOBUF=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_QT=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_TBB=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_TIFF=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D WITH_WEBP=ON)

list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_CUDA_STUBS=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_DOCS=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_IPP_IW=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_ITT=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_JASPER=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_JAVA=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_JPEG=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_OPENEXR=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_PACKAGE=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_PERF_TESTS=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_PNG=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_PROTOBUF=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_TBB=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_TESTS=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_TIFF=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_WEBP=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_ZLIB=ON)

list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_opencv_apps=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_opencv_java_bindings_generator=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_opencv_js=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_opencv_python_bindings_generator=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_opencv_python_tests=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_opencv_world=OFF)

list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D OPENCV_ENABLE_NONFREE=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D OPENCV_FORCE_3RDPARTY_BUILD=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_WITH_STATIC_CRT=OFF)

list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE})
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE})
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF)
list(APPEND OPENCV_OPTIONS -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${THIDR_PARTY_INSTALL_DIR}/OpenCV)

build_external_project(OpenCV "${THIRD_PARTY_DIR}/OpenCV/opencv-4.3.0+cache.zip" ${OPENCV_OPTIONS})

set(OpenCV_STATIC ON)

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Dlib.

set(DLIB_OPTIONS "")

list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D USE_SSE2_INSTRUCTIONS=ON)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D USE_SSE4_INSTRUCTIONS=ON)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D USE_AVX_INSTRUCTIONS=ON)

list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D DLIB_GIF_SUPPORT=ON)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D DLIB_JPEG_SUPPORT=ON)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D DLIB_PNG_SUPPORT=ON)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D DLIB_USE_BLAS=ON)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D DLIB_USE_CUDA=OFF)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D DLIB_USE_LAPACK=ON)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D DLIB_USE_MKL_FFT=OFF)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D DLIB_LINK_WITH_SQLITE3=OFF)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D DLIB_NO_GUI_SUPPORT=OFF)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D DLIB_ENABLE_ASSERTS=OFF)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D DLIB_ENABLE_STACK_TRACE=OFF)

list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE})
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE})
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF)
list(APPEND DLIB_OPTIONS -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${THIDR_PARTY_INSTALL_DIR}/dlib)

build_external_project(dlib ${THIRD_PARTY_DIR}/Dlib/dlib-19.20.tar.bz2 ${DLIB_OPTIONS})

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

####################################################################################################
# Now, you can use find_package:
find_package(OpenCV REQUIRED PATHS "${THIDR_PARTY_INSTALL_DIR}/OpenCV" NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
find_package(dlib REQUIRED PATHS "${THIDR_PARTY_INSTALL_DIR}/dlib" NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
####################################################################################################

Thanks for sharing this gist.

There is a little typo on "THIDR_PARTY_DIR"

It was corrected. Thanks you :)