Failed linking to boost library with CMake generated project file for MSVC9

Question

I\'m trying to build an application with boost library by creating a MSVC9.0 project files with CMake.

I get the following error:

Error 3 f

Answer 1

First of all, did you check if "'libboost_system-vc90-mt-gd-1_44.lib" really exists in your stage-dir "D:/boost_1_44_0/stage/lib"?

Second: the most common problem I used to have with Boost and CMake's find_package( Boost) was interference with the auto-linking. You could disable it by adding a definition to your compile flags

add_definitions( -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB )

but then you probably will need to specify if you want to link to the dynamic or static version

set( Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON ) # or Off, depending on what you want
find_package( Boost 1.44.0 REQUIRED unit_test_framework system)

Of course, you could always check the generated visual studio files to see which link-libraries are actually added to your project.