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  • From: "Laurent Rineau (CGAL/GeometryFactory)" <>
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  • Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] Re: failing to compile simple code under VS2010
  • Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:37:52 +0100
  • Organization: GeometryFactory

Le vendredi 09 novembre 2012 02:01:36 Eran Yanay a écrit :
> actually i have checked and my boost library contains alot of libraries.
> even the boost_thread and others which is written.
> however, they all begin with "lib" prefix, like "libboost.....lib" and i
> think thats the issue.
> is it safe to rename it and press the configure button again?
> or does it have some dependencies i need to take into account?

The Boost libraries starting with libboost* are static libraries. Those
starting with boost* are shared libraries.

In CMake, you can toggle the boolean variable CGAL_Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS so
that the CGAL CMake scripts set variables so that FindBoost.cmake searchs for
static Boost libraries.

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




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