[CMake] Boost library directory not found unless I explicitly set BOOST_LIBRARYDIR ?

Fri Nov 14 11:26:24 EST 2014

I've used a script to help it out a bit. I think these Windows installers
are new.  Here's the script I use - it basically sets BOOST_ROOT and
BOOST_LIBRARYDIR automatically in some cases.
https://gist.github.com/rpavlik/586f1fda6e32777623e1

Ryan

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Glenn Coombs <glenn.coombs at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have installed Boost on Windows 7 for Visual Studio 2013 by running
> these installers:
>
> boost_1_56_0-msvc-12.0-32.exe
> boost_1_56_0-msvc-12.0-64.exe
>
> downloaded from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.56.0/.
>
> I'm using CMake 2.8.12.1 and when I try to build a simple Boost example
> using the filesystem library my cmake configuration step fails to find the
> required libraries unless I use the BOOST_LIBRARYDIR variable to tell it
> where the libraries are:
>
> set(BOOST_VERSION_NEEDED 1.53.0)
>
> if (MSVC)
>     set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS       ON)
>     set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED     ON)
>     set(Boost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME    ON)
> #   set(BOOST_LIBRARYDIR            /Boost/boost_1_56_0/lib64-msvc-12.0)
> endif()
>
> find_package(Boost ${BOOST_VERSION_NEEDED} REQUIRED COMPONENTS system
> filesystem)
>
> Given that the library directory is where the official Boost installer put
> it shouldn't the FindBoost.cmake package be checking that directory by
> default ?
>
> This is the output from CMake:
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:476 ] _boost_TEST_VERSIONS =
> 1.56.0;1.56;1.55.0;1.55;1.54.0;1.54;1.53.0;1.53
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:478 ] Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED =
> ON
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:480 ] Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS = ON
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:482 ] Boost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME
> = ON
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:484 ] Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS
> =
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:486 ] Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS =
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:538 ] Declared as CMake or
> Environmental Variables:
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:540 ] BOOST_ROOT =
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:542 ] BOOST_INCLUDEDIR =
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:544 ] BOOST_LIBRARYDIR =
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:546 ] _boost_TEST_VERSIONS =
> 1.56.0;1.56;1.55.0;1.55;1.54.0;1.54;1.53.0;1.53
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:639 ] location of version.hpp:
> C:/Boost/boost_1_56_0/boost/version.hpp
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:663 ] version.hpp reveals boost
> 1.56.0
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:739 ] guessed _boost_COMPILER =
> -vc120
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:749 ] _boost_MULTITHREADED = -mt
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:792 ] _boost_RELEASE_ABI_TAG =
> -s
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:794 ] _boost_DEBUG_ABI_TAG =
> -sgd
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:842 ]
> _boost_LIBRARY_SEARCH_DIRS =
> C:/Boost/boost_1_56_0/lib;C:/Boost/boost_1_56_0/../lib;C:/Boost/boost_1_56_0/stage/lib;PATHS;C:/boost/lib;C:/boost;/sw/local/lib
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:930 ] Searching for
> SYSTEM_LIBRARY_RELEASE:
> libboost_system-vc120-mt-s-1_56;libboost_system-vc120-mt-s;libboost_system-mt-s-1_56;libboost_system-mt-s;libboost_system
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:966 ] Searching for
> SYSTEM_LIBRARY_DEBUG:
> libboost_system-vc120-mt-sgd-1_56;libboost_system-vc120-mt-sgd;libboost_system-mt-sgd-1_56;libboost_system-mt-sgd;libboost_system-mt;libboost_system
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:930 ] Searching for
> FILESYSTEM_LIBRARY_RELEASE:
> libboost_filesystem-vc120-mt-s-1_56;libboost_filesystem-vc120-mt-s;libboost_filesystem-mt-s-1_56;libboost_filesystem-mt-s;libboost_filesystem
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:966 ] Searching for
> FILESYSTEM_LIBRARY_DEBUG:
> libboost_filesystem-vc120-mt-sgd-1_56;libboost_filesystem-vc120-mt-sgd;libboost_filesystem-mt-sgd-1_56;libboost_filesystem-mt-sgd;libboost_filesystem-mt;libboost_filesystem
>
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1017 ] Boost_FOUND = 1
>
> Could NOT find Boost
>
> Boost version: 1.56.0
>
> Boost include path: C:/Boost/boost_1_56_0
>
> Could not find the following static Boost libraries:
>
> boost_system
>
> boost_filesystem
>
> No Boost libraries were found. You may need to set BOOST_LIBRARYDIR to the
> directory containing Boost libraries or BOOST_ROOT to the location of Boost.
>
>
> As you can see it is looking for a directory called lib rather than
> lib64-msvc-12.0.
>
> --
> Glenn
>
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