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[Andrei Sucila <>]

Thanks alot. I tried it, and it worked. I got over cmake!

New trouble : when I try to compile it with vc 2008, it says it cannot include boost/config.hpp

Something is not set right. Did you run into the same trouble? And if so, how did you solve it?

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From: Jannis Warnat <>
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:19:22 PM
Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] Installation problems

Hi,

I use XP and cygwin and I fought for days with the issue of cmake not finding boost thread.

It finally worked when I hacked the following into FindBoost.cmake, i.e. gave him the path manually.

...
SET(Boost_${UPPERCOMPONENT}_LIBRARY /usr/local/lib/libboost_thread-gcc34-mt-1_38.a)

message("${Boost_${UPPERCOMPONENT}_LIBRARY}\n")

message("${Boost_${UPPERCOMPONENT}_LIBRARY_RELEASE}\n")

message("${Boost_${UPPERCOMPONENT}_LIBRARY_DEBUG}\n")

_Boost_ADJUST_LIB_VARS(${UPPERCOMPONENT})

IF( Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS )

SET(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ${_boost_ORIG_CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES})

ENDIF( Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS )

ENDFOREACH(COMPONENT)

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------

# End finding boost libraries

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------

You could search the archive for "findboost" of "setupboost" to find some other threads about similar issues:

https://lists-sop.inria.fr/sympa/arc/cgal-discuss

Hope that is of any help...

Jannis Warnat

----- Original Message ----- From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:38 PM
Subject: [cgal-discuss] Installation problems


> Hy everyone! I know I'm just a dreadfully annoying noob, but I can't get the
> installation procedure right with cgal 3.4.
>
> I'm running under winxp (don't stone me..). I installed boost, cmake and set
> all the PATH values (BOOST_PATH, Boost_INCLUDE_DIR, Boost_LIBRARYDIR,
> Boost_THREAD_LIBRARY_DEBUG & Boost_THREAD_LIBRARY_RELEASE). After all that, I
> installed using the installer provided on the CGAL site, and now I'm trying to
> get cmake to produce the .vcproj (I'd like to install it for visual c 2008),
> but it keeps getting stuck with the error message "boost_thread not found" and
> asks me to set the Boost_LIBRARYDIR variable...
>
> The boost version is 1.39.0, cmake is 2.6.4 and cgal is 3.4. Any ideas what I'm
> doing wrong?
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