Has anybody used AWS SDK in MinDevkit?

I'm pulling my hair out here. This is what I've accomplished:

I followed the vcpkg Walkthrough that Rob linked to above. I was able to get it to work. I downloaded sqlite3 via vcpkg and was able to bring sqlite3 into my Min project.

The walkthrough for AWS SDK is extremely similar. I am able to generate the project successfully, but when I try to build I get linker errors. 13 unresolved externals to be precise.

I don't know what to do. I can build the AWS SDK as a standalone console app. I can bring a different library into Min. Cmake is not indicating any problems.

The only difference between the sqlite example and the AWS example is that the AWS example has a couple more lines added to cmakelists.txt. I tried adding/removing various lines and placing them in different orders. I was able to generate different cmake errors this way, but I was not able to get anything to build. In one configuration, I was also able to generate an additional build time error about being unable to locate a header header file. I don't know if that's significant.

Below is cmakelists.txt to generate a console app for AWS and the default Min project cmakelists.txt. If anybody has any suggestions for how to merge the two... or any other ideas to try... I would be truly overjoyed. Thanks!

# Minimal CMakeLists.txt for the AWS SDK for C++.
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
project(app LANGUAGES CXX)

# Use shared libraries
set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ON CACHE STRING "Link to shared libraries by default.")

#Include in any AWS service packages your code will be using by service name
find_package(AWSSDK REQUIRED COMPONENTS s3)
add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} "main.cpp") #add app's main sourcefile

set_compiler_flags(${PROJECT_NAME})
set_compiler_warnings(${PROJECT_NAME})
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC ${AWSSDK_LINK_LIBRARIES})

(note that you have to specify "PUBLIC" in target_link_libraries here, since that is how it is used elsewhere in Max SDK)

# Copyright 2018 The Min-DevKit Authors. All rights reserved.
# Use of this source code is governed by the MIT License found in the License.md file.

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)

set(C74_MIN_API_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../min-api)
include(${C74_MIN_API_DIR}/script/min-pretarget.cmake)

#############################################################
# MAX EXTERNAL
#############################################################

include_directories( 
    "${C74_INCLUDES}"
)

set( SOURCE_FILES
    ${PROJECT_NAME}.cpp
    ${MAX_SDK_INCLUDES}/common/commonsyms.c
)

add_library( 
    ${PROJECT_NAME} 
    MODULE
    ${SOURCE_FILES}
)

include(${C74_MIN_API_DIR}/script/min-posttarget.cmake)

#############################################################
# UNIT TEST
#############################################################

include(${C74_MIN_API_DIR}/test/min-object-unittest.cmake)