Linking problem with boost when building cpprest-sdk on MacOs - boost

Question

I'm trying to create an HTTP client for a rest API using the cpprest-sdk library: https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk
I'm using a MacBook Pro with the latest version of MacOs (10.14.2).
I use brew as a package manager and have installed boost with:
brew install boost
Versions of dependencies:
clang: Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)
cmake: 3.13.2
boost: stable 1.68.0 (bottled), HEAD
First I tried to follow this:
https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk/wiki/How-to-build-for-Mac-OS-X
So I also installed cpprestsdk with boost:
boost install cpprestsdk
Then I used the code from the tutorial in one main.cpp:
#include <cpprest/http_client.h>
#include <cpprest/filestream.h>
using namespace utility; // Common utilities like string conversions
using namespace web; // Common features like URIs.
using namespace web::http; // Common HTTP functionality
using namespace web::http::client; // HTTP client features
using namespace concurrency::streams; // Asynchronous streams
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
auto fileStream = std::make_shared<ostream>();
// Open stream to output file.
pplx::task<void> requestTask = fstream::open_ostream(U("results.html")).then([=](ostream outFile)
{
*fileStream = outFile;
// Create http_client to send the request.
http_client client(U("http://www.bing.com/"));
// Build request URI and start the request.
uri_builder builder(U("/search"));
builder.append_query(U("q"), U("cpprestsdk github"));
return client.request(methods::GET, builder.to_string());
})
// Handle response headers arriving.
.then([=](http_response response)
{
printf("Received response status code:%u\n", response.status_code());
// Write response body into the file.
return response.body().read_to_end(fileStream->streambuf());
})
// Close the file stream.
.then([=](size_t)
{
return fileStream->close();
});
// Wait for all the outstanding I/O to complete and handle any exceptions
try
{
requestTask.wait();
}
catch (const std::exception &e)
{
printf("Error exception:%s\n", e.what());
}
return 0;
}
And I created a CMake build file CMakeLists.txt as they describe in the README of cpprestsdk:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.13)
project(cpprest-example)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 14)
find_package(cpprestsdk REQUIRED)
add_executable(cpprest-example main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(cpprest-example PRIVATE cpprestsdk::cpprest)
First I had a problem with CMake not fining openssl, so I had to add two env parameters like described here:
CMake not able to find OpenSSL library
Then it compiles but then fails during linking, with errors:
Scanning dependencies of target cpprest-example
[ 50%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/cpprest-example.dir/main.cpp.o
[100%] Linking CXX executable cpprest-example
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"boost::this_thread::interruption_point()", referenced from:
boost::condition_variable::wait(boost::unique_lock<boost::mutex>&) in main.cpp.o
boost::condition_variable::do_wait_until(boost::unique_lock<boost::mutex>&, boost::detail::real_platform_timepoint const&) in main.cpp.o
"boost::chrono::steady_clock::now()", referenced from:
bool boost::condition_variable::wait_for<long long, boost::ratio<1l, 1000l>, pplx::details::event_impl::wait(unsigned int)::'lambda0'()>(boost::unique_lock<boost::mutex>&, boost::chrono::duration<long long, boost::ratio<1l, 1000l> > const&, pplx::details::event_impl::wait(unsigned int)::'lambda0'()) in main.cpp.o
bool boost::condition_variable::wait_until<boost::chrono::steady_clock, boost::chrono::duration<long long, boost::ratio<1l, 1000000000l> >, pplx::details::event_impl::wait(unsigned int)::'lambda0'()>(boost::unique_lock<boost::mutex>&, boost::chrono::time_point<boost::chrono::steady_clock, boost::chrono::duration<long long, boost::ratio<1l, 1000000000l> > > const&, pplx::details::event_impl::wait(unsigned int)::'lambda0'()) in main.cpp.o
"boost::detail::get_current_thread_data()", referenced from:
boost::detail::interruption_checker::interruption_checker(_opaque_pthread_mutex_t*, _opaque_pthread_cond_t*) in main.cpp.o
"boost::system::detail::system_category_instance", referenced from:
boost::system::system_category() in main.cpp.o
"boost::system::detail::generic_category_instance", referenced from:
boost::system::generic_category() in main.cpp.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[2]: *** [cpprest-example] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/cpprest-example.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
Strange thing is that if I build the cpprestsdk codebase with CMake it works fine and one of the samples is the same code:
https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk/tree/master/Release/samples/BingRequest
That sample project has then been built successfully and runs fine.
I also tried uninstalling cpprestsdk from brew and did a CMake build of the cloned repository and then "make -j4 && make install". That installs cpprestsdk headers and libraries locally but in the end, results in the same errors.
It looks like it's not finding the boost libraries and I have tried using find_package(BOOST 1.68.0) and similar things but it fails with the same errors.
Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?