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

[Michael Jackson]

On May 1, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Mourad Boufarguine wrote:

> 
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:
> On Di.,   1. Mai. 2012 00:20:58 CEST, Mourad Boufarguine <mourad at boufarguine.name> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > add this :
> >
> > link_directories(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS})
> >
> > after the include_directories command.
> 
> No, please don't. The target_link_libraries command is what you really want. Please stop advertising link_directories, it's usage is almost certainly wrong and while it sometimes seems to solve your problem it usually just creates another one.
> 
> Eike
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> 
> 
> Unless you disable Boost auto-linking, i'm afraid it's the only option. Boost autolinking is enabled by default for Visual Studio. In this case, Boost headers have pragmas to link to Boost libs.
> 
> #pragma comment (lib, "libboost_xxxx.lib")
> 
> If you don't add  Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS  to the link directories, it won't work.
> 
> Mourad
> 

Nope. I don't use link_directories at all and I use Boost on windows all the time. I use the "target_link_libraries(...) method and it has NEVER give me any trouble on windows with VS 2005, 2008 and 2010.

YMMV (but it shouldn't)
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Mike Jackson                 www.bluequartz.net