Boost_program_option is not found during the cmake step - boost

Question

I am installing a bioinformatic tool named SuperDCA in a new conda environment. However, I get an error in the cmake step. It indicates:
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 12.1.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 12.1.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /mnt/d/conda/superdca/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /mnt/d/conda/superdca/bin/CC - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Setting build type to "Release" since none was specified by user.
SUPERDCA_DEPENDENCIES setup: check for Boost
CMake Error at /mnt/d/conda/superdca/lib/cmake/Boost-1.80.0/BoostConfig.cmake:141 (find_package):
Found package configuration file:
/mnt/d/conda/superdca/lib/cmake/boost_program_options-1.80.0/boost_program_options-config.cmake
but it set boost_program_options_FOUND to FALSE so package
"boost_program_options" is considered to be NOT FOUND. Reason given by
package:
No suitable build variant has been found.
The following variants have been tried and rejected:
* libboost_program_options.so.1.80.0 (shared, Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/mnt/d/conda/superdca/lib/cmake/Boost-1.80.0/BoostConfig.cmake:262 (boost_find_component)
/mnt/d/conda/superdca/share/cmake-3.24/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:594 (find_package)
externals/boost.cmake:25 (find_package)
externals/CMakeLists.txt:14 (include)
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/mnt/d/download/SuperDCA/SuperDCA/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
Since it says it set boost_program_options_FOUND to FALSE, should I set it to TRUE?
The package versions are:
# Name Version Build Channel
boost-cpp 1.80.0 h75c5d50_0 conda-forge
cmake 3.24.1 h5432695_0 conda-forge

Answer 1

The clue is here:
* libboost_program_options.so.1.80.0 (shared, Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON)
Presumbly your Conda environment has only shared libraries for Boost in $CONDA_PREFIX/lib, and not static ones. For some reason, the software you're trying to build has set Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS to require static linking. Without knowing why that is, there are two possible solutions:
Find where Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS is set, and remove it.
Find a Boost package which contains static libraries. This may be fairly uncommon on Linux, where shared libraries are used most of the time.