cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1) project(TestFindBoost CXX) include(CTest) find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS filesystem thread OPTIONAL_COMPONENTS program_options foobar) if(Boost_FOOBAR_FOUND) message(FATAL_ERROR "Optional inexistent Boost component \"foobar\" found which is unexpected") endif(Boost_FOOBAR_FOUND) if(NOT Boost_PROGRAM_OPTIONS_FOUND) message(FATAL_ERROR "Optional Boost component \"program_options\" not found which is unexpected") endif(NOT Boost_PROGRAM_OPTIONS_FOUND) add_executable(test_boost_tgt main.cxx) target_link_libraries(test_boost_tgt Boost::dynamic_linking Boost::disable_autolinking Boost::filesystem Boost::thread) add_test(NAME test_boost_tgt COMMAND test_boost_tgt) add_executable(test_boost_var main.cxx) target_include_directories(test_boost_var PRIVATE ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}) target_link_libraries(test_boost_var PRIVATE ${Boost_FILESYSTEM_LIBRARIES} ${Boost_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES} ${Boost_THREAD_LIBRARIES} ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT}) add_test(NAME test_boost_var COMMAND test_boost_var)