[CMake] What is the best way to handle Boost dependencies in a package config file

[Michi Henning]

We use this, which works fine for me on Ubuntu:

find_package(Boost COMPONENTS system filesystem regex serialization thread log REQUIRED)

Cheers,

Michi.

> On 27 Jan 2016, at 12:54 , Johnson, Matt (GE Healthcare) <Matthew.Johnson1 at med.ge.com> wrote:
> 
> I like package config files.  I want to use more of them.  However, I have a dependency on boost.  While boost has a Find module, it doesn't have a package config file.  I'm not going to be able to depend on the users of my package building boost via cmake (also, is that still an active thing?).
> 
> It seems like the best I could hope for is to generate the package config file, then hack it up to deal with the boost stuff.  Has anyone already solved this problem or have any tips?  I found this Hunter package manager (https://github.com/ruslo/hunter), but it seems a bit heavyweight when all I want is boost.  Also, I can't have my build system going out and downloading the packages - they all have to come from an internal source.  
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
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