Link the static versions of the Boost libraries using CMake

Question

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?

Thank you

Answer 1

In your CMakeLists.txt file:

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