Hi! On Windows for hdf5 <2.0 when configuring with cmake .. -G Ninja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="installation" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug it resulted in libraries having debug posfix - e.g. hdf5_D.lib, ...

The first thing you need to know is that the official Boost releases can't be built with CMake. Even though the Boost Github repository contains a CMakeLists.txt file, it's removed from the release.