Edit: Mods can lock this thread, solved on IRC. Second post contains workaround. I found a locked thread bearing the same error message, but the problem this time isn't that I have the wrong version of Boost (vs2013 libs, trying to install with vs2015 as in the locked thread). I have the correct version of Boost (1_59_0_msvc-14.0-64) and the environment variables are correctly configured. Error text from CMake log: CMake Error at cmake/macros/FindBoost.cmake:1184 (message): Unable to find the requested Boost libraries. Boost version: 1.59.0 Boost include path: C:/Boost/boost_1_59_0 Could not find the following static Boost libraries: boost_system boost_filesystem boost_thread boost_program_options boost_iostreams No Boost libraries were found. You may need to set BOOST_LIBRARYDIR to the directory containing Boost libraries or BOOST_ROOT to the location of Boost. Call Stack (most recent call first): cmake/macros/ConfigureBoost.cmake:32 (find_package) CMakeLists.txt:62 (include) I even tried renaming the directories in my boost install (they have no 'boost_' prefix by default) to no avail. Also, IRC is dead for the night so I figured I'd post here. Any help is appreciated.