Yes, the official FindBoost works better xD
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 8:40 PM Nils Gladitz <nilsglad...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25.12.2015 10:36, Xi Shen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I know I can check MSVC to determine if the Visual Studio generator is > > used. But how do I find out which version is been used? > > MSVC indicates that the Visual C++ compiler (or something compatible) is > being used; which does not necessarily mean a Visual Studio generator. > If you do need to make that distinction you can check MSVC_IDE [1] instead. > > > > > The reason I want to find the the version of VS being used, is because > > I need to link to the Boost libraries. Boost create its libraries with > > suffixes like "-vs120-mt", etc. and "vs120" indicates Visual Studio 2013. > > Why aren't you using the Boost find module[2] included with CMake? It > already accounts for Boost's library name mangling. > > The module uses e.g. the MSVC12 [3] variable to detect "vc120". > But I am guessing CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_VERSION [4] might work for this > use case nowadays as well. > > Nils > > [1] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4/variable/MSVC_IDE.html > [2] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4/module/FindBoost.html > [3] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4/variable/MSVC12.html > [4] > https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4/variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER_VERSION.html > -- Regards, David
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