# VTK-vtk-module-find-packages.cmake fails to find Boost
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947
**Category:** In Situ Support
**Created:** [May 28, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947 "2019-05-28T17:31:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/1 "2019-05-28T17:31:35Z")
Hi,
I got and build the latest version of paraview from gitlab. When building my code with paraview, I get a weird error. CMake finds boost as expected:
find\_package(Boost 1.53 REQUIRED COMPONENTS python):
– Boost version: 1.53.0
– Found the following Boost libraries:
– python
– Boost\_FOUND=1
– Boost\_FIND\_VERSION\_EXACT=
– Version/minor /
– :CMAKE\_CXX\_COMPILER\_VERSION=3.8
– Boost\_VERSION=105300
– Boost\_FIND\_VERSION=
– Boost\_FIND\_VERSION\_MINOR=
– Boost\_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib64/libboost\_python-mt.so
– Boost\_INCLUDE\_DIRS=/usr/include
– Boost\_LIBRARY\_DIRS=/usr/lib64
Later, find\_package(Boost) is called again from vtk/VTK-vtk-module-find-packages.cmake:313:
find\_package(Boost
…
EXACT
```
${_vtk_module_find_package_quiet}
${_vtk_module_find_package_required}
COMPONENTS
OPTIONAL_COMPONENTS )
```
and fails:
CMake Error at /ascldap/users/tesari/local/cmake/3.14.4/share/cmake-3.14/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1148 (message): When requesting a specific version of Boost, you must provide at least the major and minor version numbers, e.g., 1.34
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/lib64/cmake/paraview-5.6/vtk/VTK-vtk-module-find-packages.cmake:313 (find\_package)
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/lib64/cmake/paraview-5.6/vtk/vtk-config.cmake:115 (include)
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/lib64/cmake/paraview-5.6/paraview-config.cmake:41 (find\_package)
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/paraview-config.cmake:1 (include)
CMakeLists.txt:347 (
find\_package(ParaView 5.6 NO\_PACKAGE\_ROOT\_PATH REQUIRED COMPONENTS ${CATALYST\_LIBRARIES})
I am working with cmake 3.14.4 on Linux x86\_64. I tried to find boost without specifying a version, same result. What do I miss here?
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ted
---
### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/2 "2019-05-28T18:06:37Z")
Hmm. It seems that our version extraction failed when compiling VTK itself. `"@Boost_MAJOR_VERSION@.@Boost_MINOR_VERSION@.@Boost_SUBMINOR_VERSION@"` should be configured to get the version number. If you log what’s going on with `_vtk_find_package_version` in `vtkModule.cmake` when configuring VTK around line 3600, what do you see?
---
### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/3 "2019-05-28T20:26:16Z")
HI,
```
Looks like that configuration never reaches line 3600. To make
```
sure that is the case, I put \*\* message(FATAL\_ERROR
…\*\* at line 3600, removed VTK from the build
directory, and run cmake again. VTK was reconfigured.
Thanks,
Ted
```auto
string(REGEX REPLACE
"${_vtk_find_package_version_regex}" "\\1"
_vtk_find_package_found_version
"${_vtk_find_package_version}")
unset(_vtk_find_package_version_regex)
unset(_vtk_find_package_version)
** message(FATAL_ERROR "_vtk_find_package_version =
${_vtk_find_package_version}")**
set_property(GLOBAL
```
---
### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/4 "2019-05-28T20:30:47Z")
I don’t think line 3600 is exact (it depends on what version of the file you’re looking at). There’s logic around there that sets the `_vtk_find_package_version` variable:
```auto
string(FIND "${_vtk_find_package_VERSION_VAR}" "@" _vtk_find_package_idx)
if (_vtk_find_package_idx EQUAL -1)
if (NOT DEFINED "${_vtk_find_package_VERSION_VAR}")
message(FATAL_ERROR
"The `${_vtk_find_package_VERSION_VAR}` variable is not defined.")
endif ()
set(_vtk_find_package_version "${${_vtk_find_package_VERSION_VAR}}")
else ()
string(CONFIGURE "${_vtk_find_package_VERSION_VAR}" _vtk_find_package_version)
endif ()
message(FATAL_ERROR ...) # add this line
```
---
### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/5 "2019-05-28T22:57:48Z")
```auto
I moved message(FATAL_ERROR ...)
where you pointed, no difference. Configuration is successful, with no interruption and no error messages. As to the configuration failure of the release branch, shall I open a separate ticket?
```
---
### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/6 "2019-05-29T12:16:23Z")
Hmm. What distribution of Boost are you using and on what platform?
---
### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/7 "2019-05-30T14:42:33Z")
I was using the system version of Boost, I think 1.40. I build a
custom version, 1.70.0, and rebuild paraview from scratch. Now
configuration failed at the message(FATAL\_ERROR) with \_vtk\_find\_package\_version = 2.7.16. Below is
the error related to VTK-vtk-module-find-packages:
```auto
-- Found Boost 1.70.0 at
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost_1_70_0/lib/cmake/Boost-1.70.0
-- Requested configuration: QUIET REQUIRED COMPONENTS
system;filesystem;python
-- Found boost_headers 1.70.0 at
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost_1_70_0/lib/cmake/boost_headers-1.70.0
-- Found boost_system 1.70.0 at
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost_1_70_0/lib/cmake/boost_system-1.70.0
-- Boost toolset is unknown (compiler 3.8)
-- libboost_system.so.1.70.0
-- Adding boost_system dependencies: headers
-- Found boost_filesystem 1.70.0 at
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost_1_70_0/lib/cmake/boost_filesystem-1.70.0
-- Boost toolset is unknown (compiler 3.8)
-- libboost_filesystem.so.1.70.0
-- Adding boost_filesystem dependencies: headers
-- Found boost_python 1.70.0 at
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost_1_70_0/lib/cmake/boost_python-1.70.0
-- Boost toolset is unknown (compiler 3.8)
-- libboost_python27.so.1.70.0
-- Adding boost_python dependencies: headers
-- Boost found.
-- Found Boost components:
system;filesystem;python
-- Boost_FOUND = 1
-- Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS =
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost_1_70_0/include
-- Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS =
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost_1_70_0/lib
-- Boost_LIBRARIES =
-- Boost_VERSION = 1.70.0
-- Boost_LIB_VERSION =
-- Boost_MAJOR_VERSION =
-- Boost_MINOR_VERSION =
-- Boost_SUBMINOR_VERSION=
-- Boost_VERSION_STRING =
-- Boost_LIBRARY_DIR=/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost_1_70_0/lib
PACKAGE_PREFIX_DIR=
CATALYST_ROOT=/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build
CMake Error at
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/cmake/3.14.4/share/cmake-3.14/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1148
(message):
When requesting a specific version of Boost, you must provide at
least the
major and minor version numbers, e.g., 1.34
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/lib64/cmake/paraview-5.6/vtk/VTK-vtk-module-find-packages.cmake:360
(find_package)
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/lib64/cmake/paraview-5.6/vtk/vtk-config.cmake:115
(include)
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/lib64/cmake/paraview-5.6/paraview-config.cmake:41
(find_package)
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/paraview-config.cmake:1
(include)
CMakeLists.txt:360 (find_package)
CMake Error at
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/cmake/3.14.4/share/cmake-3.14/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:2155
(message):
Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.
Boost version: 1.70.0
Boost include path:
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost_1_70_0/include
Detected version of Boost is too new. Requested version was
0.0.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/lib64/cmake/paraview-5.6/vtk/VTK-vtk-module-find-packages.cmake:360
(find_package)
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/lib64/cmake/paraview-5.6/vtk/vtk-config.cmake:115
(include)
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/lib64/cmake/paraview-5.6/paraview-config.cmake:41
(find_package)
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/paraview-config.cmake:1
(include)
CMakeLists.txt:360 (find_package)
-- Could not find the VTK package due to a missing dependency:
Boost
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:360 (find_package):
Found package configuration file:
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/paraview-config.cmake
but it set ParaView_FOUND to FALSE so package "ParaView" is
considered to
be NOT FOUND. Reason given by package:
Could not find the ParaView package with the following required
components:
vtkPVPythonCatalyst.
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
```
---
### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/8 "2019-05-30T14:55:06Z")
Forgot to add system info: Linux
3.10.0-957.el7.x86\_64, cmake version 3.14.4
---
### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/9 "2019-05-30T18:14:55Z")
Hmm. If you change the instances of `VERSION_VAR "@Boost_…"` in the following files:
- `Infovis/Boost/CMakeLists.txt`
- `Infovis/BoostGraphAlgorithms/CMakeLists.txt`
- `ThirdParty/xdmf3/vtkxdmf3/core/CMakeLists.txt`
with `VERSION_VAR Boost_VERSION`, and then rebuild ParaView, does that solve the issue? We may need to do some different logic for different versions of `FindBoost` here.
---
### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/10 "2019-05-30T18:34:10Z")
Is this correct?
```
# VERSION_VAR
```
)
VERSION\_VAR “@Boost\_VERSION@”)
---
### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/11 "2019-05-30T19:43:43Z")
I eplaced
```
# VERSION_VAR )
```
with
VERSION\_VAR “@Boost\_VERSION@”).
and rebuilt paraview. Now configuration pass VTK-vtk-module-find-packages,
but fail with ‘Could not find …
vtkPVPythonCatalyst’.
vtkPVPythonCatalyst is
present under …/build/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/paraview/module,
and have it LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH and PYTHONPATH (see below).
---
### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/12 "2019-05-30T20:10:08Z")
I suspect you forgot to paste the information you mention. However, `find_package` doesn’t care about `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` or `PYTHONPATH` anyways. There should be more information in the error message that it couldn’t find the component. The actual issue here is that the component is called `PythonCatalyst` (the `vtkPV` is just a library name differentiator; it shows up in CMake as `ParaView::PythonCatalyst` which is where the component name comes from).
---
### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 8:34pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/13 "2019-05-30T20:34:17Z")
I sent it in a separate mail. Here it is:
---
### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/14 "2019-05-30T20:54:19Z")
> > There should be more information in the
> > error message that it couldn’t find the component.
```
Not sure how to make it more verbose. The lines below are from
```
find\_package(ParaView), and it is all I see. Attached are the
error and output logs. Please let me know if need more
information.
```
-- Found Boost 1.70.0 at
```
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost\_1\_70\_0/lib/cmake/Boost-1.70.0
```
-- Requested configuration: QUIET REQUIRED
-- Boost 1.70.0 found.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:360 (find_package):
Found package configuration file:
```
/ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview/build/paraview-config.cmake
```
but it set ParaView_FOUND to FALSE so package "ParaView" is
```
considered to
```
be NOT FOUND. Reason given by package:
Could not find the ParaView package with the following
```
required components:
```
vtkPVPythonCatalyst.
```
[CMakeError.log](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d1937bd50d0209731f3d27511e35bc7e89e28ccf.log) (2.06 KB)
[CMakeOutput.log](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bbc85d94a91a4ed3d339888b4bed853b03f7d09d.log) (126 KB)
---
### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/15 "2019-05-31T13:29:26Z")
Change your `find_package(ParaView REQUIRED COMPONENTS vtkPVPythonCatalyst)` to `find_package(ParaView REQUIRED COMPONENTS PythonCatalyst)`.
---
### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/16 "2019-05-31T14:16:23Z")
I’ll test out 1.70.0 here locally to see what’s up, but yes, that will work.
---
### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/17 "2019-05-31T16:36:54Z")
Yes, configuration is successful, thanks!
I have some issue building my code, e.g. “Cannot
find vtkNew.h” . When I use a Catalyst build, I have
something like:
```
find_package(ParaView 5.6 NO_PACKAGE_ROOT_PATH
```
REQUIRED COMPONENTS `vtkPVPythonCatalyst`)
```
include("${PARAVIEW_USE_FILE}")
```
When building the code with Paraview, there is no ${PARAVIEW\_USE\_FILE}. Is
there ${ParaView\_INCLUDE\_DIR }?
Where can I look what variables are set by find\_package(ParaView)?
---
### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/18 "2019-05-31T16:38:25Z")
So I downloaded 1.70.0 from [boost.org](http://boost.org) and built/installed it. Using CMake 3.14.4, VTK got `find_package(Boost)` set up properly in the `VTK-vtk-module-find-packages.cmake` file, so debugging to figure out why the `Boost_MAJOR_VERSION` and related variables are not defined in your case would be required, but I can’t reproduce myself it here with the information available here.
---
### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/19 "2019-05-31T17:11:31Z")
Not sure that thsi relates to the issue, but I just noticed that
Found Boost 1.70.0 alternates with Boost 1.40 found:
```
-- Found Boost 1.70.0 at
```
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost\_1\_70\_0/lib/cmake/Boost-1.70.0
```
-- Requested configuration: QUIET
-- Found boost_headers 1.70.0 at
```
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost\_1\_70\_0/lib/cmake/boost\_headers-1.70.0
```
-- Boost found.
-- Found Boost 1.70.0 at
```
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost\_1\_70\_0/lib/cmake/Boost-1.70.0
```
-- Requested configuration: QUIET REQUIRED
-- Found boost_headers 1.70.0 at
```
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost\_1\_70\_0/lib/cmake/boost\_headers-1.70.0
```
-- Boost 1.40 found.
-- Found X11: /usr/include
-- Found Boost 1.70.0 at
```
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost\_1\_70\_0/lib/cmake/Boost-1.70.0
```
-- Requested configuration: QUIET REQUIRED
-- Found boost_headers 1.70.0 at
```
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost\_1\_70\_0/lib/cmake/boost\_headers-1.70.0
```
-- Boost 1.40 found.
-- Found Boost 1.70.0 at
```
/ascldap/users/tesari/local/boost\_1\_70\_0/lib/cmake/Boost-1.70.0
```
-- Requested configuration: QUIET REQUIRED
-- Boost found.
```
---
### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/vtk-vtk-module-find-packages-cmake-fails-to-find-boost/1947/20 "2019-05-31T19:17:32Z")
> When building the code with Paraview, there is no ${PARAVIEW\_USE\_FILE}.
This is no longer a thing. ParaView is ready-to-use right after `find_package` now. It is also consumed by targets now, so `ParaView_INCLUDE_DIR` isn’t necessary anymore. Instead, just link to `ParaView::Catalyst` or whichever targets you’d like to use (`vtk_module_autoinit` may be required for some usecases). The list of available variables can be found at the top of `paraview-config.cmake`: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/CMake/paraview-config.cmake.in](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/CMake/paraview-config.cmake.in)
> [@tesari](#):
>
> Not sure that thsi relates to the issue, but I just noticed that
> Found Boost 1.70.0 alternates with Boost 1.40 found:
Uh, that could certainly be a problem. I also see ` -- Boost found.` there which is a Boost found without a version number. I suspect something is quite wrong with your Boost install(s). Make sure that all Boost variables in the cache for ParaView and your project are consistently using a single Boost version.
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