[CMake] [Boost-users] link error in Visual Studio when using boost from CMake

[Hui Wang]

Yes, I tried with find_package( Boost COMPONENTS thread ) and
target_link_libraries( ShowEngine ${Boost_LIBRARIES}), and that works.
Thank you so much!

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Alain Leblanc <aalebl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't have much experience with boost in combination with cmake, but don't
> you still need to add the boost libraries in a target_link_libraries()
> command? (Or whatever command is usedbto indicate the libraries to link
> with).
>
> A
>  On Apr 30, 2012 2:49 PM, "Hui Wang" <huiwang8921 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using CMake generated Visual Studio solution, and I added boost with
>> find_package(Boost),
>> before that I used commands: set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS
>> ON) set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON) set(Boost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME OFF)
>> after that I used
>> commands: include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR}) add_executable(
>> MyProject src/main.cpp)
>>
>> Because automatic linking is used on Visual Studio when including Boost,
>> and it typically use static libraries, I try not to conflict with that. But
>> I get the error:
>> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
>> 'libboost_thread-vc100-mt-gd-1_47.lib'
>>
>> I installed pre-compiled binary Boost with the installer provided by
>> BoostPro Computing, and I checked to find that I do have
>> libboost_thread-vc100-mt-gd-1_47.lib, libboost_thread-vc100-mt-s-1_47.lib
>> libboost_thread-vc100-mt-sgd-1_47.lib libboost_thread-vc100-mt-1_47.lib
>> in C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_47\lib
>>
>> I also output messages to find that
>> Boost_FOUND=TRUE Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS=C:/Program
>> Files/boost/boost_1_47/lib Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS=C:/Program
>> Files/boost/boost_1_47
>>
>> So I'm confused why it has the link error. I tried with dynamically
>> linking too, it can't find the .dll files at runtime either, but again they
>> exist right there in the directory I installed boost. Could anyone help me
>> understand where the problem is?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --
>> Sophie Wang
>> www.sophiehuiwang.com
>>
>>
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