[CMake] Using the FindBoost package

[Klaim - Joël Lamotte]

I might be wrong but maybe you mixed up BOOST_INCLUDEDIR
and Boost_INCLUDE_DIR? (note the additional underscore)
>From the documentation the first one is read to deduce the second one.
Their name is unfortunately very close.

I never tried to use BOOST_INCLUDEDIR directly, I only set a BOOST_ROOT and
BOOST_LIBRARYDIR on windows.

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Edward Diener <
eldlistmailingz at tropicsoft.com> wrote:

> The code is not mine but I am trying to get it to work. On Windows the
> code is calling into the FindBoost.cmake package via a find_package call.
> Before calling find_package the code sets the Boost_INCLUDE_DIR and
> Boost_LIBRARY_DIR to the respective Boost 'boost' and Boost 'libs'
> subdirectories of a Boost installation under Windows. This causes a failure
> because FindBoost looks for the version.h file as
> Boost_INCLUDE_DIR/boost/version.h. This implies that the Boost_INCLUDE_DIR
> ios supposed to be the top-level installation directory, but when it is set
> to that I get errors saying that none of the Boost libraries can be found.
> It seems as if FindBoost.cmake is not meant to work on Windows, but only on
> Linux.
>
> How can I make the call to FindBoost work successfully ?
>
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