[CMake] Boost Library Search

[David Cole]

Philip Lowman recently took the mantle for the FindBoost maintenance. He
fixed a bunch of stuff just now for the upcoming (now in release candidate
phase) CMake 2.8.3 release...

Are you reporting this based on CMake 2.8.3-rc2 or an earlier release of
CMake?

Try using the release candidate. I know he did some stuff to make it
possible to prefer static libs specifically.


Thanks,
David


On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:55 PM, assume_R <assurem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all.  So I noticed a possible bug with the way boost is searched in
> findboost.cmake.
>
> Essentially, if you have the boost static runtimes installed, that's what
> Visual Studio will require.  For example, using the thread library, it will
> need libboost_thread*-sgd*
>
> Yet the non-static-runtime versions are what are searched first, so it only
> finds libboost_thread*-gd*, and visual studio will give you a link error.
>
> The reason is that on lines 718 - 738 of findboost.cmake, it defines the
> NAMES of the boost_STATIC_TAG after it already lists the same version
> without the boost_STATIC_TAG.
>
> So what needs to be done is instead of
>
>     FIND_LIBRARY(Boost_${UPPERCOMPONENT}_LIBRARY_RELEASE
>
> ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}${_boost_COMPILER}${_boost_MULTITHREADED}-${Boost_LIB_VERSION}
>         NAMES
>  ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}${_boost_COMPILER}${_boost_MULTITHREADED}${_boost_STATIC_TAG}-${Boost_LIB_VERSION}
>
> ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}${_boost_MULTITHREADED}-${Boost_LIB_VERSION}
>
> ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}${_boost_MULTITHREADED}${_boost_STATIC_TAG}-${Boost_LIB_VERSION}
>                ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}${_boost_MULTITHREADED}
>
> ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}${_boost_MULTITHREADED}${_boost_STATIC_TAG}
>                ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}
>         HINTS  ${_boost_LIBRARIES_SEARCH_DIRS}
>     )
>
>
>
> it should be
>
>
>
>     FIND_LIBRARY(Boost_${UPPERCOMPONENT}_LIBRARY_RELEASE
>         NAMES
>  ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}${_boost_COMPILER}${_boost_MULTITHREADED}${_boost_STATIC_TAG}-${Boost_LIB_VERSION}
>
> ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}${_boost_COMPILER}${_boost_MULTITHREADED}-${Boost_LIB_VERSION}
>
> ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}${_boost_MULTITHREADED}${_boost_STATIC_TAG}-${Boost_LIB_VERSION}
>
> ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}${_boost_MULTITHREADED}-${Boost_LIB_VERSION}
>
> ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}${_boost_MULTITHREADED}${_boost_STATIC_TAG}
>                ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}${_boost_MULTITHREADED}
>                ${Boost_LIB_PREFIX}boost_${COMPONENT}
>         HINTS  ${_boost_LIBRARIES_SEARCH_DIRS}
>     )
>
> Anybody know who the maintainer is??
>
> -assumeR
>
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