Could not find the following Boost libraries: boost_system

Question

I want to build this repository: https://github.com/reo7sp/tgbot-cpp.

It is an API for managing Telegram bots. The needed dependencies are openssl, zlib, boost. Curl

Answer 1

According to your comments, the location for Boost is D:/Programme/Boost/boost_1_69_0/stage/lib, but you set it to D:/Programme/Boost/boost_1_69_0/lib.

Anyway, Boost can be found if you set (usually manually, in the CMake UI rather than in the CMakeLists.txt file) BOOST_ROOT to D:/Programme/Boost/boost_1_69_0 with FIND_PACKAGE(Boost).

This will in turn set all the Boost_* variables that you need to use.

Answer 2

Use the same command to build and install Boost.

bjam install --prefix=D:/Programme/Boost/boost_1_69_0 --with-system --with-date_time --with-random link=static runtime-link=shared threading=multi

In windows, Boost creates another sub directory under include. It should be something like this.

D:/Programme/Boost/boost_1_69_0/include/boost-1_69

Move all files in D:/Programme/Boost/boost_1_69_0/include/boost-1_69 to D:/Programme/Boost/boost_1_69_0/include/

(Move the contents up to one directory)

Now set the BOOST_ROOT in CMake project to D:/Programme/Boost/boost_1_69_0.

It should work now.