[CMake] figuring out exact name of boost-regex lib to use

[Michael Wild]

On 02/28/2012 10:00 AM, Bart Vandewoestyne wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm quite new to CMake, still learning my way around...  I currently
> have the following in a CMakeList.txt file:
> 
>   set(BOOST_LIBNAME "boost_regex")
>   #set(BOOST_LIBNAME "boost_regex-mt")
>   target_link_libraries(airspace ${BOOST_LIBNAME})
> 
> On some platforms, it only works if I set the Boost RegEx library name
> to "boost_regex", on others it only works with "boost_regex-mt".
> 
> Up until now, I always uncomment the correct form, depending on what
> platform I am (Linux, Cygwin,...) but this is quite annoying.  How can I
> figure out automatically the name of the Boost RegEx library to use?
> 
> Thanks!
> Bart

Don't do it this way. Use this:

find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS regex)
include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})

# add_executable etc...

target_link_libraries(airspace ${Boost_LIBRARIES})


Michael