CMake is not able to find BOOST libraries

Question

I tried everything like:

1. Configure environment variable
2. Make fresh build
3. Re-install BOOST from source
4. sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

But still getting following Errors:

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1131 (message):
 Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.

 Unable to find the Boost header files.  Please set BOOST_ROOT to the root
 directory containing Boost or BOOST_INCLUDEDIR to the directory containing
 Boost's headers.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
   CMakeLists.txt:147 (find_package)


CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1131 (message):
Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.

Unable to find the Boost header files.  Please set BOOST_ROOT to the root
directory containing Boost or BOOST_INCLUDEDIR to the directory containing
Boost's headers.

Source code directory for boost: /usr/local/src/boost_1_45_0 Boost Library path: /usr/local/lib Boost Header file: /usr/local/include/boost

Here is bashrc file:

BOOST_ROOT="/usr/local/src/boost_1_45_0"
Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS="/usr/local/lib"
BOOST_INCLUDEDIR="/usr/local/src/boost_1_45_0"

How to solve these Errors? Am i missing something?

Edit:

cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$ANDTOOLCHAIN -DBOOST_ROOT=/usr/local/src/boost_1_45_0 -DBOOST_INCLUDEDIR=/usr/local/include/boost -DBOOST_LIBRARYDIR=/usr/local/lib -DPYTHON_LIBRARIES=/usr/local/lib/python2.7 -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/python2.7 -DCMA-DRDK_BUILD_PYTHON_WRAPPERS=

Answer 1

Try to complete cmake process with following libs:

sudo apt-get install cmake libblkid-dev e2fslibs-dev libboost-all-dev libaudit-dev

Answer 2

I'm using this to set up boost from cmake in my CMakeLists.txt. Try something similar (make sure to update paths to your installation of boost).

SET (BOOST_ROOT "/opt/boost/boost_1_57_0")
SET (BOOST_INCLUDEDIR "/opt/boost/boost-1.57.0/include")
SET (BOOST_LIBRARYDIR "/opt/boost/boost-1.57.0/lib")

SET (BOOST_MIN_VERSION "1.55.0")
set (Boost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE ON)
FIND_PACKAGE(Boost ${BOOST_MIN_VERSION} REQUIRED)
if (NOT Boost_FOUND)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "Fatal error: Boost (version >= 1.55) required.")
else()
  message(STATUS "Setting up BOOST")
  message(STATUS " Includes - ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}")
  message(STATUS " Library  - ${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS}")
  include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
  link_directories(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS})
endif (NOT Boost_FOUND)

This will either search default paths (/usr, /usr/local) or the path provided through the cmake variables (BOOST_ROOT, BOOST_INCLUDEDIR, BOOST_LIBRARYDIR). It works for me on cmake > 2.6.

Answer 3

I got the same error the first time I wanted to install LightGBM on python (GPU version).

You can simply fix it with this command line :

sudo apt-get install cmake libblkid-dev e2fslibs-dev libboost-all-dev libaudit-dev

the boost libraries will be installed and you'll be fine to continue your installation process.