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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On Monday 26 October 2009 12:33:04 Austin Bingham wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been trying to build CGAL-3.5(linux 2.6.18, cmake 2.6) against a
> non-standard installation of boost-1.37, and I haven't been able to get
> the build system to use the proper boost libraries. My cmake invocation
> looks like this (paths modified for brevity):
> 
> cmake -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR=/boost/include \
> -DBoost_thread_LIBRARY_RELEASE=/boost/lib/libboost_thread_gcc41-mt.so \
> -DBoost_thread_LIBRARY_DEBUG=/boost/lib/libboost_thread_gcc41-mt-yd.so \
> .

The correct syntax of the -D option is: -D<var>:<type>=<value>. So:

cmake -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=/boost/include \
 -DBoost_thread_LIBRARY_RELEASE:FILEPATH=/boost/lib/libboost_thread_gcc41-
mt.so \
 -DBoost_thread_LIBRARY_DEBUG=:FILEPATH/boost/lib/libboost_thread_gcc41-mt-
yd.so \
 .

Older versions of CMake were permissive about that syntax, but I think that 
is 
important with recent versions of CMake.

I do not remember well those details, because I now always use the graphical 
cmake-gui, as much as possible.

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/