[CMake] Patch to find Boost under Windows

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 03.09.08 00:01:38, Judicaël Bedouet wrote:
> I have downloaded Multithread DLL for Visual Studio 2003 and tried to find
> them with CMake 2.6-1. Boost version is 1.35
> CMake finds headers but can't find libraries. CMake search the following
> directories :
> 
>    - C:/boost/lib
>    - C:/boost
>    -
>    $ENV{ProgramFiles}/boost/boost_${Boost_FIND_VERSION_MAJOR}_${Boost_FIND_VERSION_MINOR}_${Boost_FIND_VERSION_PATCH}
>    - $ENV{ProgramFiles}/Boost
> 
> Third path refers to variables ${Boost_FIND_VERSION_MAJOR},
> ${Boost_FIND_VERSION_MINOR} and ${Boost_FIND_VERSION_PATCH} but I don't want
> to specify a specific version. So, this paths is valued at C:\Program
> Files/boost/boost___/lib.

You're not specifying a _specific_ version, but a minimum version
number. In most cases this is a good idea, especially if you don't test
your code with older versions of the library.

> Standard Boost installer installs libraries to "C:\Program
> Files\boost\boost_1_35_0\lib".
> 
> So, I suggest this patch. After reading Boost_LIB_VERSION and Boost_VERSION
> in boost/version.hpp, we could add path
> $ENV{ProgramFiles}/boost/boost_${Boost_MAJOR_VERSION}_${Boost_MINOR_VERSION}_${Boost_SUBMINOR_VERSION}/lib
> to library search dirs. It works fine for me.
> 
> Could this be applied to future CMake versions ?

Looks fine to me, but you might want to open a bugreport in the CMake
issue tracker.

Andreas

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