Link the static versions of the Boost libraries using CMake

Question

I\'ve got both the static and the dynamic versions of the boost libraries in /usr/lib. Now I\'d like CMake to prefer the static versions during the linkage of my executable. Wha

Answer 1

Here is a full example of CMAKEFILE

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
project(your_project)
set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS   ON)
find_package(Boost 1.70 COMPONENTS program_options REQUIRED)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 14)   
add_executable(your_project main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(rconpp Boost::program_options)

references:

cmake documents about BOOST