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[Philipp Moeller <>]

skauf 
<>
 writes:

> My boost installation: 
> I extracted the latest version of boost for Windows from boost.org, and
> built the binary libraries ("thread" included). The binary libs are under
> C:\Temp\boost_1_51_0\stage\lib so for example I have:
> C:\Temp\boost_1_51_0\stage\lib\libboost_thread-vc100-mt-1_51.lib

Those are Visual Studio libraries. Didn't you say you wanted to use gcc
instead of VS?

> This path is in the search dir of CGAL's cmake:
> [ C:/Program Files (x86)/CGAL-4.0.2/cmake/modules/FindBoost.cmake:688 ]
> _boost_LIBRARIES_SEARCH_DIRS =
> C:/Temp/boost_1_51_0/libs;C:/Temp/boost_1_51_0/lib;C:/Temp/boost_1_51_0/stage/lib;C:/boost/lib;C:/boost;C:/Program
> Files (x86)/boost/boost_1_51_0/lib;C:/Program Files
> (x86)/boost/boost_1_51/lib;C:/Program Files (x86)/boost;/sw/local/lib
>
> But it still complains that it can't fine boost_thread.
>
> Also, any ideas how to target CGAL for use with MinGW?