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[Philipp Moeller <>]

Sweety Pie 
<>
 writes:

> Please note that CMake GUI should be Run as Administrator for Win7

No, it shouldn't. This is only the case when file permissions or
installation folders have been chosen poorly.

Running build systems as root is dangerous.

> This is needed to be added to the tutorial which is really helpful.
>
>
> On 7 June 2012 11:11, Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)
> <>
>  wrote:
>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>
>> OK, I found the problem.
>>
>> Variants to be selected must be:
>> Multithreaded debug DLL
>> Multithreaded DLL
>> Multithreaded debug
>> Multithreaded
>>
>> Then you need to set:
>> BOOST_INCLUDEDIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\boost\boost_1_47
>> BOOST_LIBRARYDIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\boost\boost_1_47\lib
>>
>> and to append to your PATH C:\Program Files (x86)\boost\boost_1_47\lib;
>>
>> Then no cmake modifications are needed.
>>
>> Sebastien.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/06/2012 01:01 PM, Devashish Tyagi wrote:
>>>
>>> Adding the following lines to CGAL_SetupBoost.cmake fixed my error
>>>
>>>
>>>   set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS   ON)
>>>   set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON)
>>>   set(Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS "1.47")
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Devashish Tyagi
>>> <
>>>  
>>> <mailto:>>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>    I followed your tutorial and tried installing CGAL 4.0 beta1 on my
>>>    32 bit windows machine. When I ran cmake configure I encountered the
>>>    following error
>>>
>>>    CMake Error at cmake/modules/FindBoost.cmake:917 (message):
>>>
>>>    Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.
>>>
>>>    Boost version: 1.47.0
>>>
>>>    Boost include path: C:/Program Files/boost/boost_1_47
>>>
>>>    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:6 (find_package)
>>>
>>>    cmake/modules/CGAL_SetupDependencies.cmake:32 (include)
>>>
>>>    CMakeLists.txt:455 (include)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)
>>>    
>>> <
>>>  
>>> <mailto:>>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>        Hello CGAL users,
>>>
>>>        Due to the increasing traffic on this list about installation
>>>        issues on
>>>        Windows, we decided to come up with a dedicated tutorial.
>>>
>>>        In order to make it better, we would like people to read/try it
>>>        and send feedback (typos, what did not work, what can be
>>>        improved, ...).
>>>        You can send it to the list or directly to me if you prefer.
>>>
>>>        The current address of the page is:
>>>        http://www.cgal.org/windows___installation.html
>>>
>>>        <http://www.cgal.org/windows_installation.html>
>>>
>>>        Thanks for your help,
>>>
>>>        Sebastien.
>>>
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>>>
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>>>    Junior Undergraduate
>>>    Computer Science and Engineering Dept.
>>>    IIT Delhi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Devashish Tyagi
>>> Junior Undergraduate
>>> Computer Science and Engineering Dept.
>>> IIT Delhi