I tried to do this in MSys git bash on my win 8.1 with MSVC 12 installed, and the latest cmake and git:
$> git clone https://github.com/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib.git
$> cd cpp-netlib
$> git submodules update --init
$> cd deps
## here I unzip the boost folder into boost
## i.e. cpp-netlib/deps/boost/ contains bjam, bootstrap and the boost include dir
$> cd boost && bootstrap.bat && ./b2.exe
$> cd ../ && mkdir build && cd build
$> cmake -G"Visual Studio 12" -DBOOST_ROOT="../deps/boost" ../
This fails: and ask me to set BOOST_ROOT.
What is wrong with this ?
Thank you for your help
cmake . -DBoost_DEBUG=ON
should output a pile of debug info about how CMake is trying to find boost. If that doesn't make the answer clear, can you add that output to your question along with an example of the path and name of one of the built boost libs? – Fraser Dec 12 at 5:03