A few points: 0. I only tried all my tests in 32bits. 1. For completeness, here is the CMake configuration I used to generate projects for both tests: cmake_minimum_required( VERSION 2.8.11 ) if( WIN32 AND CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P EQUAL 8 ) # On Windows 64bit: check that the right boost binaries are set before continuing if( NOT DEFINED BOOST_LIBRARYDIR OR BOOST_LIBRARYDIR STREQUAL "BOOST_LIBRARYDIR-NOT-SET" ) set( BOOST_LIBRARYDIR "BOOST_LIBRARYDIR-NOT-SET" CACHE PATH "Location of the Boost library binaries" FORCE ) message( FATAL_ERROR "BOOST_LIBRARYDIR is not set (we need the 64bit version). Before continuing, please set it to the correct binary path (depending on if you want to link with 32 or 64bit version)." ) endif() endif() # Force Boost.Thread V4 use for all projects, including dependencies. add_definitions( -DBOOST_THREAD_VERSION=4 -DBOOST_RESULT_OF_USE_DECLTYPE ) set( Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON ) set( Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON ) set( Boost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME OFF ) find_package( Boost 1.54.0 REQUIRED COMPONENTS system date_time filesystem chrono thread program_options log log_setup iostreams ) if( NOT Boost_FOUND ) message( SEND_ERROR "Boost libraries NOT FOUND!" ) endif() include_directories( ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR} ) add_executable( test main.cpp ) target_link_libraries( test ${Boost_LIBRARIES} ) # add_dependencies( test tbb ) 2. The quickfix seems to work even in my application. 3. I created a ticket: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9079