CMake doesn't find Boost libraries

Question

I\'m trying to use a CMake script to compile a Boost-based application on Windows. The header-only libraries work fine, but CMake fails to find the libraries (the following

Answer 1

I've had a problem with this before. For some reason b2 (aka BJam) created the Boost libraries with a leading "lib".

The CMake script will not look for a file named libboost_thread.lib. It will only find boost_thread.lib. Remove the leading lib and CMake should find them.