wxWidgets and CLion -- How To Build Samples

I am a complete newbie with wxWidgets, but spent weeks trying to figure out how to build the library and use it with CLion and CMake. Here's what I found:

https://forums.wxwidgets.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45198 

I sincerely hope it helps somebody like me, who is trying to develop C++ apps with the wxWidgets library.