Linker errors with ImageMagick C Api on linux and cmake - c

Question

I created a C application first on windows which uses MagickWand and added imagemagick to it by first installing imagemagick from the official site, then adding the installed static libraries and include folder from the imagemagick installation to my project, and depending on them in CMake. It worked succesfully.
I wanted to do the same on linux: but with different library files (.lib for windows, and .a for linux, since I am linking statically).
I installed imagemagick source code from github, then built the project as documented:
./configure, make, make install.
Then I copied the generated library files and include folder to my project, same as I did on windows:
and this is my CMakeLists.txt, it just adds dependencies to the static magick libraries:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.23)
project(demo-app)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 23)
file(GLOB SOURCE_FILES src/*.c)
add_executable(demo ${SOURCE_FILES})
include_directories(src)
#ImageMagick
# set quantum depth
set(MAGICKCORE_QUANTUM_DEPTH 16)
# IF linux:
if (UNIX)
include_directories(Dependencies/ImageMagick/include)
target_link_directories(demo PRIVATE Dependencies/ImageMagick/lib)
# add MagickWand static library
add_library(MagickWand STATIC IMPORTED)
set_target_properties(MagickWand PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/Dependencies/ImageMagick/lib/libMagickWand-7.Q16.a)
target_link_libraries(demo PRIVATE MagickWand)
# add MagickCore static library
add_library(MagickCore STATIC IMPORTED)
set_target_properties(MagickCore PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/Dependencies/ImageMagick/lib/libMagickCore-7.Q16.a)
target_link_libraries(demo PRIVATE MagickCore)
endif ()
so far so good. Now If I build and run, I get alot of undefined reference errors:
logs
I searched for the missing references, for example: undefined reference to XWithdrawWindow, small google search and I find that this function is part of xlib library, So please don't tell me I should add each of these libraries separately into my CMakeLists.txt.
I really don't understand why is this happening? shouldn't the static libraries contain any other dependencies they need (if this is what's causing the error)?
What am I doing wrong?