cppcms lots of unresolved external symbols - c++

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I am having errors as follows trying to build cppcms.
Error 184 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_pcre_compile referenced in function "public: void __cdecl booster::regex::assign(class std::basic_string,class std::allocator > const &,int)" (?assign#regex#booster##QEAAXAEBV?$basic_string#DU?$char_traits#D#std##V?$allocator#D#2##std##H#Z) C:\Stuff\Development\CPP\cppcms-1.0.2\build\booster\pcre_regex.obj
Error 185 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_pcre_exec referenced in function "public: bool __cdecl booster::regex::match(char const *,char const *,class std::vector,class std::allocator > > &,int)const " (?match#regex#booster##QEBA_NPEBD0AEAV?$vector#U?$pair#HH#std##V?$allocator#U?$pair#HH#std###2##std##H#Z) C:\Stuff\Development\CPP\cppcms-1.0.2\build\booster\pcre_regex.obj
Error 186 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_pcre_fullinfo referenced in function "public: void __cdecl booster::regex::assign(class std::basic_string,class std::allocator > const &,int)" (?assign#regex#booster##QEAAXAEBV?$basic_string#DU?$char_traits#D#std##V?$allocator#D#2##std##H#Z) C:\Stuff\Development\CPP\cppcms-1.0.2\build\booster\pcre_regex.obj
Error 187 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_pcre_malloc referenced in function "public: __cdecl booster::regex::data::data(struct booster::regex::data const &)" (??0data#regex#booster##QEAA#AEBU012##Z) C:\Stuff\Development\CPP\cppcms-1.0.2\build\booster\pcre_regex.obj
Error 188 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_pcre_free referenced in function __catch$??0data#regex#booster##QEAA#AEBU012##Z$0 C:\Stuff\Development\CPP\cppcms-1.0.2\build\booster\pcre_regex.obj
Error 189 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_htons referenced in function "public: __cdecl booster::aio::endpoint::endpoint(class std::basic_string,class std::allocator > const &,int)" (??0endpoint#aio#booster##QEAA#AEBV?$basic_string#DU?$char_traits#D#std##V?$allocator#D#2##std##H#Z) C:\Stuff\Development\CPP\cppcms-1.0.2\build\booster\endpoint.obj
My environment is Windows 7 64 bit, using Visual Studio 2012 Professional, and CMake 2.8.9.
For everything I compile, I configure CMake to generate solutions for VS2012 to use the 64 bit compiler. When I do compile the libraries, I compile the release versions.
First I compile Zlib 1.2.7 without a problem.
Second I compile pcre-8.31 without a problem.
Then when it gets time to compile cppcms-1.0.2 I get a bunch or errors as I pointed out before. When configuring cppcms in CMake, I have my PYTHON 2.7 set, I use C:/Stuff/Development/CPP/Zlib/zlib-1.2.7/build for my ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR, and just append a /Release/zlibstatic.lib at the end of that and you have the ZLIB library I am using, but I am not sure if I have my PCRE set up correctly.
Being that PCRE has an include and include2 in CMake, I wasn't sure what to put in them so I just did the pcre-8.31 root directory, and the pcre-8.31 build directory. For PCRE_LIB I use pcre-8.31/build/Release/pcre.lib.
I have deleted all of the build directories for the libraries and started over again even, but I still have these issues and I am not sure what could be causing them. Later I realized the booster inside of the cppcms build directory also has a solution, so I built that first, which had 3 failed projects, but most succeeded, however it didn't make a difference for cppcms building.
If you have any more questions about what I was doing, please ask and I will edit them in.

Answer 1

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