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[Bo Zhou <>]

Priyank Jain wrote:
> I think it wants the Boost thread library. Have you tried compiling 
> the boost thread library and making a variable in Cmake that points to 
> that location?
>
> /Priyank
>
> Gasnier wrote:
> > I have been using CGAL with VS2005 and VS2008 but until now I have failed to
> > compile CGAL 3.5 with VS2010 beta 2.
> >
> > I successfully compiled boot 1.41.0 but I am still blocked with cmake-gui 
> > (2.9)
> > failing to configure because of missing boost_thread library.
> > CMake output looks familiar since it appears in numerous posts in this forum
> > dealing with compilation with previous versions of Visual Studio.
> >
> > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > CMake Error at cmake/modules/FindBoost.cmake:885 (message):
> >   Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.
> >
> >   Boost version: 1.41.0
> >
> >   Boost include path: C:/Program Files/Boost/boost_1_41_0
> >
> >   The following Boost libraries could not be found:
> >
> >           boost_thread
> >
> >   No Boost libraries were found.  You may need to set Boost_LIBRARYDIR to the
> >   directory containing Boost libraries or BOOST_ROOT to the location of
> >   Boost.
> > Call Stack (most recent call first):
> >   cmake/modules/CGAL_SetupBoost.cmake:12 (find_package)
> >   cmake/modules/CGAL_SetupDependencies.cmake:17 (include)
> >   CMakeLists.txt:220 (include)
> >   
> >
> > If you ever succeeded to compile CGAL 3.5 with VS2010, please share your
> > ynowledge.
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >   
If it always shows missing boost thread library even you have set the 
proper library folder, you have to modify the version number of the 
libraries file name to match your boost version. The CGAL's cmake script 
just try to find the thread libraries according the boost version, but 
sometimes the version of thread library is not as the same as boost itself.

When I tried to compile CGAL with boost 1.39, its thread library was 
still named "1_38", so there was this problem too.

You may find everything in FindBoost.cmake to trace something.

Thanks.

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Bo Zhou
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Autodesk China Research & Development

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