Boost CMake cannot find python library - visual-studio-2012

Question

After sifting through the many other questions about CMake being unable to find boost libraries I still can't figure my issue out:
My Portion of the CMakeLists related to this:
set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS OFF)
set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON)
set(Boost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME OFF)
find_package(Boost COMPONENTS python REQUIRED)
include_directories("${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}")
include_directories("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/mazeGen")
include_directories("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/mazeSolve")
include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
target_link_libraries(${EXECUTABLE_NAME} ${Boost_LIBRARIES})
add_executable(${EXECUTABLE_NAME} ${SOURCES} ${HEADERS})
when I specify BOOST_ROOT and try to build the project the error output is:
CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1111 (message):
Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.
Boost version: 1.55.0
Boost include path: C:/local/boost_1_55_0
Could not find the following Boost libraries:
boost_python
No Boost libraries were found. You may need to set BOOST_LIBRARYDIR to the
directory containing Boost libraries or BOOST_ROOT to the location of
Boost.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:36 (find_package)
Where exactly should I point CMake in order to find the libraries? And how can I do this?
all of the built libraries are located in ${BOOST_ROOT}/stage/lib and are built for VS2012, I tried setting BOOST_LIBRARYDIR to ${BOOST_ROOT}/stage/lib but this did nothing