I failed to change the boost library version

[whsm]

I'm sorry to bother you.In order to use GUDHI, I installed boost c++ libraries, according to the suggestion of URL "https://gudhi.inria.fr/doc/latest/installation.html". I installed boost 1.84.0, 1.71.0, and 1.74.0 successively. Due to the mismatch, the folders of these three versions were directly deleted. Then boost 1.80.0 was installed. To generate the utility GUDHI, I run the command "cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..". The error result is as follows.What should I do?My operating system is Win11. My compiler is Visual Studio2022.Thank you for your help.

PS D:\Program Files (x86)\gudhi-devel\gudhi-devel> cd build/
PS D:\Program Files (x86)\gudhi-devel\gudhi-devel\build> cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.22621.0 to target Windows 10.0.22631.
-- GUDHI version : 3.10.0a1
CMake Error at D:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1841 (file):
file STRINGS file "D:/Program Files
(x86)/boost_1_84_0/boost_1_84_0/boost/version.hpp" cannot be read.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
src/cmake/modules/GUDHI_third_party_libraries.cmake:3 (find_package)
CMakeLists.txt:20 (include)

CMake Warning at D:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1015 (message):
Imported targets and dependency information not available for Boost version
0.0.0 (all versions older than 1.33)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
D:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1523 (_Boost_COMPONENT_DEPENDENCIES)
D:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:2134 (_Boost_MISSING_DEPENDENCIES)
src/cmake/modules/GUDHI_third_party_libraries.cmake:3 (find_package)
CMakeLists.txt:20 (include)

CMake Warning at D:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1015 (message):
Imported targets and dependency information not available for Boost version
0.0.0 (all versions older than 1.33)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
D:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1523 (_Boost_COMPONENT_DEPENDENCIES)
D:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:2134 (_Boost_MISSING_DEPENDENCIES)
src/cmake/modules/GUDHI_third_party_libraries.cmake:3 (find_package)
CMakeLists.txt:20 (include)

CMake Warning at D:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1015 (message):
Imported targets and dependency information not available for Boost version
0.0.0 (all versions older than 1.33)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
D:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1523 (_Boost_COMPONENT_DEPENDENCIES)
D:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:2134 (_Boost_MISSING_DEPENDENCIES)
src/cmake/modules/GUDHI_third_party_libraries.cmake:3 (find_package)
CMakeLists.txt:20 (include)

CMake Error at src/cmake/modules/GUDHI_third_party_libraries.cmake:7 (message):
NOTICE: This program requires Boost and will not be compiled.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:20 (include)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
PS D:\Program Files (x86)\gudhi-devel\gudhi-devel\build>

[VincentRouvreau]

As explained in CGAL installation manual:

As there is no canonical directory for where to find Boost on Windows, we recommend that you define the environment variable BOOST_ROOT and set it to where you have installed Boost, e.g., C:Boost\boost_1_69_0.

Please, could you try to define the environment variable BOOST_ROOT with the proper boost folder ?
I hope this will fix your issue.