FindBoost.cmake: Use different Compiler-version (vc90 instead of vc100)

Question

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 with the MSVC90 compiler. Because of this I only have Boost for VC90 installed.

Now I have a Thirdparty-component which is dependant on Boost and which I want to use. This components build system is CMake.

When I try to generate a Visual Studio solution from the given CMake-Script I ran into problems with FindBoost.cmake. It seems as if CMake is guessing that my compiler is VC100 because I have Visual Studio 2010 installed. I cannot find a CMake-Variable or something like that to manually set the compiler to VC90.

I already tried playing around with the Variables CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER and BOOST_COMPILER but had no success.

Is there a way which I hadn't found to let FindBoost.cmake search for the VC90 libs instead of the VC100 libs?

Answer 1

There is a CMake-variable which is called BOOST_COMPILER. Set this variable to -vc90