C++ – CMake doesn’t find boost

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Windows 7. 64bit. CMake 2.8.10.

Steps:

download boost: http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.51.0/
put it to C:\work\lib\boost_1_51_0-MT
open "Start->All Programs->Microsoft Visual Studio 2010->Visual Studio Tools->Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010)"
command:

cd C:\work\lib\boost_1_51_0-MT
bootstrap.bat
bjam --toolset=msvc-10.0 --variant=release --build-type=complete -j 4 --with-regex --with-test --with-filesystem --with-date_time --with-random --with-system --with-thread --with-program_options --with-chrono --with-math stage link=static threading=multi runtime-link=static

command:

set BOOST_ROOT=C:\work\lib\boost_1_51_0-MT
cmake M:\project

  Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.

  Boost version: 1.51.0

  Boost include path: C:/work/lib/boost_1_51_0-MT

  The following Boost libraries could not be found:

          boost_system
          boost_thread
          boost_random
          boost_chrono

  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.

M:\project\CMakeLists.txt contains: (i need to link boost statically)

...
set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY FIND_LIBRARY_USE_LIB64_PATHS ON)
set(USE_STATIC_BOOST ON)
add_definitions(-DBOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB)
add_definitions(-DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB)

find_package(Boost 1.48.0 COMPONENTS system thread random chrono REQUIRED)
...

This CMakeLists.txt is old and works on other boost installations (done by me and not me in past, but the recepies is lost).

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set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)

…now CMake finds boost libraries! Although my "set(USE_STATIC_BOOST ON)" must have the same effect, but it doesnt…

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set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)

...now CMake finds boost libraries! Although my CMakeLists.txt has set(USE_STATIC_BOOST ON) which must have the same effect, but it doesnt...

To use set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS OFF) you need to add:

if( WIN32 )
  # Needed for boost to turn off autolinking for dynamic linking
  add_definitions( -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB )
endif()

See more at: Linking boost library with Boost_USE_STATIC_LIB OFF on Windows

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Windows – CMake doesn’t find Boost libraries

I would try setting BOOST_ROOT inside your CMakeLists.txt file. I know that CMake 2.8.6 will find Boost 1.47.0 when you set the Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS variable since it works for me on Windows when I have BOOST_ROOT set.

Here is what I have in one project:


    set( BOOST_COMPONENTS_NEEDED serialization )

    # The following verifyies that BOOST_ROOT is set properly.
    if(NOT BOOST_ROOT AND NOT $ENV{BOOST_ROOT} STREQUAL "")
        FILE( TO_CMAKE_PATH $ENV{BOOST_ROOT} BOOST_ROOT )
        if( NOT EXISTS ${BOOST_ROOT} )
            MESSAGE( STATUS  ${BOOST_ROOT} " does not exist. Checking if BOOST_ROOT was a quoted string.." )
            STRING( REPLACE "\"" "" BOOST_ROOT ${BOOST_ROOT} )
            if( EXISTS ${BOOST_ROOT} )
                MESSAGE( STATUS "After removing the quotes " ${BOOST_ROOT} " was now found by CMake" )
            endif( EXISTS ${BOOST_ROOT})
        endif( NOT EXISTS ${BOOST_ROOT} )

    # Save the BOOST_ROOT in the cache
        if( NOT EXISTS ${BOOST_ROOT} )
            MESSAGE( WARNING ${BOOST_ROOT} " does not exist." )
        else(NOT EXISTS ${BOOST_ROOT})
            SET (BOOST_ROOT ${BOOST_ROOT} CACHE STRING "Set the value of BOOST_ROOT to point to the root folder of your boost install." FORCE)
            #SET (BOOST_INCLUDEDIR ${BOOST_ROOT}/Include)
            #SET (BOOST_LIBRARYDIR ${BOOST_ROOT}/lib)
        endif( NOT EXISTS ${BOOST_ROOT} )

    endif(NOT BOOST_ROOT AND NOT $ENV{BOOST_ROOT} STREQUAL "")

    if( WIN32 AND NOT BOOST_ROOT )
        MESSAGE( WARNING "Please set the BOOST_ROOT environment variable." )
    endif( WIN32 AND NOT BOOST_ROOT )

    set(Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS "1.47" "1.47.0")
    set(Boost_DEBUG ON)
    set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS       OFF)
    set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED      ON)
    set(Boost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME    OFF)
    FIND_PACKAGE(Boost 1.47.0 COMPONENTS ${BOOST_COMPONENTS_NEEDED})
    if(Boost_FOUND)
        MESSAGE( STATUS "Setting up boost." )
        include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
        if(Boost_DEBUG)
            MESSAGE( STATUS "BOOST Libraries " ${Boost_LIBRARIES} )
            FOREACH(BOOST_COMPONENT ${BOOST_COMPONENTS_NEEDED})
                STRING( TOUPPER ${BOOST_COMPONENT} BOOST_COMPONENT_UPCASE )
                MESSAGE( STATUS "Boost " ${BOOST_COMPONENT} ": " ${Boost_${BOOST_COMPONENT_UPCASE}_LIBRARY} )
                MESSAGE( STATUS "Boost " ${BOOST_COMPONENT} " Debug: " ${Boost_${BOOST_COMPONENT_UPCASE}_LIBRARY_DEBUG} )
                MESSAGE( STATUS "Boost " ${BOOST_COMPONENT} " Release: " ${Boost_${BOOST_COMPONENT_UPCASE}_LIBRARY_RELEASE} )
            ENDFOREACH(BOOST_COMPONENT)
        endif(Boost_DEBUG)
    endif(Boost_FOUND)

Java – In Java or .NET, how would you create a server that listens to a specific port

Suggest Sun's Learning Trail tutorial on writing a client and server for Java.

The key code you need (copied from the above link) is:

ServerSocket serverSocket = null;
try {
    serverSocket = new ServerSocket(4444);
} catch (IOException e) {
    System.out.println("Could not listen on port: 4444");
    System.exit(-1);
}

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