Failure to compile. Must statically link to boost.

[davidgwright]

Great project by the way.

I am using VS 2015 update 2.

Is it mandatory to have -D Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON, it was the only way I could get it to compile?

My cmake batch file :

cmake -D BOOST_INCLUDEDIR=C:\Development\ThirdParty\BOOST\boost_1_60_0 -D BOOST_LIBRARYDIR=C:\Development\ThirdParty\BOOST\boost_1_60_0\lib64-msvc-14.0 -D Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS=ON -D Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON -D Qt5Widgets_DIR=C:\Development\ThirdParty\QT\5.6\msvc2015_64/lib/cmake/Qt5Widgets -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" .

[mabrarov]

It is recommended required to explicitly use Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON in case you want to link against static version of Boost. It is required to link against static Boost libraries in case you want to use static C/C++ runtime (this requirement is specific for Windows platform, I guess). It is not required to use static version of Boost in other cases (but I've never tested with dynamically linked Boost on Windows).
I appreciate if you could share output (console, MSVS) in case you have errors (cmake project generation errors or build errors, etc). There is nothing special in project forcing the way binaries are linked.

[mabrarov]

I'm using VS 2015 update 2 with static version of Boost C++ Libraries 1.60 and static version of Qt 5.6 also, BTW.

[mabrarov]

It seems that -D Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=OFF is not enough to make Boost autolinking select dynamic libraries instead static (it seems that Boost autolinking almost always selects static libraries).

[mabrarov]

Fixed cmake project to turn off Boost autolinking in case -D Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON is not used (by default Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS is OFF according to FindBoost documentation) in pull request #51.

[mabrarov]

Tested with Boost 1.60 and MSVS 2015 update 2.