CMake is not including boost directories into it's generated projects - c++

Question

I have been trying to create a CMake project and then compiling it with Visual Studio 2015. When I Generate the Project Files, however, boost isn't included. Here is the relevant output from CMake upon generation:
Boost version: 1.62.0
Found the following Boost libraries:
system
thread
chrono
date_time
atomic
Configuring done
Generating done
And the paths are all correct. Where should CMake put the include directories, into VC++ Directories?
Where could the build system be going wrong?
The actual CMakeLists.txt is as follows:
#MultiTracker Application
cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.1)
project(MultiTracker)
#Additional CMake search modules
#Require C++11
set (CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
message(STATUS "Generating Makefile for MultiTracker")
file(GLOB SRC_FILES *.cpp)
#Find and link boost
SET(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)
find_package(Boost REQUIRED system thread)
add_executable(MultiTracker ${SRC_FILES})
#Link internal libraries
#Link 3rd party libraries
target_link_libraries(MultiTracker ${Boost_LIBRARIES})
#The native OS thread library
set(THREADS_PREFER_PTHREAD_FLAG ON)
find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(MultiTracker Threads::Threads)
Main.cpp
//System Includes
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
//Library Includes
#include <boost/program_options.hpp>
#include <boost/format.hpp>
//Local Includes
int main(int iArgc, char *cpArgv[])
{
std::string confName = "Conf.json", outFileName, inFileName;
//setup the program options
boost::program_options::options_description oPODescriptions("Available options");
oPODescriptions.add_options()
("help", "help message")
("confFile", boost::program_options::value<std::string>(&confName)->default_value("pclConf.json"), "Name of the configuration file to use");
boost::program_options::variables_map mapVars;
try
{
boost::program_options::store(boost::program_options::parse_command_line(iArgc, cpArgv, oPODescriptions), mapVars);
boost::program_options::notify(mapVars);
}
catch (std::exception &e)
{
std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
return 2;
}
//print the help message
if (mapVars.count("help"))
{
std::cout << "Stack Overflow Test: " << oPODescriptions << std::endl;
return ~0;
}
std::cout << "Press enter to exit" << std::endl;
std::cin.get();
}
Thanks!

Answer 1

You should also include in your question HOW did you managed the Boost dependency in your CMakeLists.txt file.
If you used find_package(Boost) (see reference here),
you should add Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS to your target project include directories,
and Boost_LIBRARIES to the libraries linked by your project.
See a very similar question and answer here: How do you add boost libraries in CMakeLists.txt
Added after question has been edited
you are missing:
target_include_directories(MultiTracker PRIVATE ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
(not sure about "PRIVATE" in your case)