[CMake] FindBoost (once again...)

Christian Ehrlicher Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de
Sun Nov 23 12:58:57 EST 2008


Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
> On 23.11.08 14:43:19, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> FindBoost does not work for me on windows because of a wrong pathname:
>>
>>       if (WIN32 AND NOT CYGWIN)
>>         set(_boost_PATH_SUFFIX boost_${_boost_VER})
>>       else (WIN32 AND NOT CYGWIN)
>>         set(_boost_PATH_SUFFIX boost-${_boost_VER})
>>       endif (WIN32 AND NOT CYGWIN)
>>
>> I installed boost with bjam and a directory <prefix>/include/boost-1_37/  
>> is created. Therefore the above assumption that it's boost_1_37 is wrong.
> 
> I suspect that the author used a binary boost package, but IIRC it wasn't
> me, so don't really know.
> 
But why should the binary packages use another include dir? Strange... :(
>> Also the latest cvs binary for win32 still does not have support for  
>> boost 1.37.
> 
> Thats not a problem, see the top of FindBoost.cmake, you can set
> Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS prior to find_package to use newer boost
> packages.
> 
Good idea but the sources are not mine.
And I don't care that 2.6.2 did not find it but 1.37 is out since three 
weeks and cmake cvs still doesn't contain this version so I wanted to 
make sure it's in 2.6.3 :)


Christian

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