How do I build the SOCI library without errors?

Question

I am having difficulties building the SOCI library.

Relevant software:

• Boost ver 1.73.0
• CMake ver 3.16
• MSVC compiler ver 19.26.28805.0
• MySQL ver 5.7
• SOCI ver 4.0.0

Relevant paths:

• Path to Boost is E:\cpp\Lib\boost\boost_1_73_0 .
• Path to CMake is E:\Apps\CMake\share\cmake-3.16 .
• Path to MySQL server is C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.7\ .
• Path to MSVC is C:\Apps\32\Microsoft\Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.26.28801\bin\Hostx64\x64 .

Command to build SOCI is cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debut -DSOCI_CXX11=ON -DSOCI_SHARED=ON -DWITH_BOOST=ON -DWITH_MYSQL=ON..

Here is the modified Boost.cmake file, found at %SOCI%\cmake\dependencies\ . Comments beginning ## explain changes.

## commented
#set(Boost_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE)

set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON)
## commented
#find_package(Boost 1.33.1 COMPONENTS date_time)

## BEGIN inserted
set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "E:/cpp/Lib/boost/boost_1_73_0")
message(STATUS "<< set CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH >> " ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH})

set(BOOST_ROOT E:/cpp/Lib/boost/boost_1_73_0)
message(STATUS "<< set BOOST_ROOT >> " ${BOOST_ROOT})

message(STATUS "<< FIND_PACKAGE >>")
FIND_PACKAGE(Boost)

message(STATUS "<< FIND_PACKAGE COMPONENTS >>")
FIND_PACKAGE(Boost COMPONENTS date_time)

message(STATUS "<< Boost_FOUND >> " ${Boost_FOUND})

message(STATUS "<< Boost_DATE_TIME_FOUND >> " ${Boost_DATE_TIME_FOUND})
## END inserted

## commented
#if (NOT Boost_DATE_TIME_FOUND)
#  find_package(Boost 1.33.1)
#endif()

set(Boost_RELEASE_VERSION
  "${Boost_MAJOR_VERSION}.${Boost_MINOR_VERSION}.${Boost_SUBMINOR_VERSION}")

boost_external_report(Boost RELEASE_VERSION INCLUDE_DIR LIBRARIES)

Here is the relevant output. Full output available here .

-- Boost:
-- << set CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH >> E:/cpp/Lib/boost/boost_1_73_0
-- << set BOOST_ROOT >> E:/cpp/Lib/boost/boost_1_73_0
-- << FIND_PACKAGE >>
-- << FIND_PACKAGE COMPONENTS >>
CMake Warning at E:/Apps/CMake/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1161 (message):
  New Boost version may have incorrect or missing dependencies and imported
  targets
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  E:/Apps/CMake/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1283 (_Boost_COMPONENT_DEPENDENCIES)
  E:/Apps/CMake/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1921 (_Boost_MISSING_DEPENDENCIES)
  cmake/dependencies/Boost.cmake:18 (FIND_PACKAGE)
  cmake/SociDependencies.cmake:79 (include)
  CMakeLists.txt:83 (include)


-- Could NOT find Boost (missing: date_time) (found version "1.73.0")
-- << Boost_FOUND >> FALSE
-- << Boost_DATE_TIME_FOUND >> 0
-- WARNING: Boost libraries not found, some features will be disabled.

Executing msbuild.exe SOCI.sln produces output available here .

Can anyone tell me why SOCI will not build correctly? Why is it not finding the date_time component when it is most certainly there?

Answer 1

Turns out, most of the errors I was getting was from the included unit tests. Why? I do not know. However, if I ignore the errors and move on, everything seems to work fine.