[CMake] Boost on Windows

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Bill Hoffman<bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> Christopher Harvey wrote:
>>
>> define BOOST_ROOT and point it at the root install location for boost. I
>> had the same problem, that fixed it. I only had to do that on windows.
>>
> There seems to be a bug in the FindBoost, BOOST_ROOT should not be required.
>   I got it to work by adding this:
>
>
>  SET(_boost_LIBRARIES_SEARCH_DIRS
>    C:/boost/lib
>    C:/boost
>
> "$ENV{ProgramFiles}/boost/boost_${Boost_MAJOR_VERSION}_${Boost_MINOR_VERSION}_${Boost_SUBMINOR_VERSION}/lib"
>
> "$ENV{ProgramFiles}/boost/boost_${Boost_MAJOR_VERSION}_${Boost_MINOR_VERSION}/lib"
>    "$ENV{ProgramFiles}/boost"
>    /sw/local/lib
>  )
>

That explains why I needed to do that on windows also. I do not have
boost in any of these locations...

John