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Link the static versions of the Boost libraries using CMake

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. What can I do?

Solution

  • In your CMakeLists.txt file:

    set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS   ON)
find_package(Boost REQUIRED ...)

    Where I have ..., you optionally put the names of the libraries you want to use, and then target_link_libraries(targetname ${Boost_LIBRARIES}) later below. If you have a fairly recent distribution of CMake, it should work exactly as advertised. I do it exactly this way in my own projects.