On Dec 10, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: > So I hacked on bcp a bit to add in the detection of CMake files so when doing > something like: > > [mjackson] $ bcp boost/program_options.hpp boost/smart_ptr.hpp > boost/pointer_cast.hpp boost/algorithm/string.hpp boost/thread.hpp > tools/build/cmake /tmp/Boost-1.41.0 > > All the necessary CMake files will be copied into the new Subset directory. I > tested this on OS X and it shockingly worked quite well. Also a bit of a > shock was the shear number of files that needed to be copied from boost just > for shared_ptr.hpp > > I then took that Subset directory and copied it over to a Windows 7 x64 with > VS 2008 standard installed. Launched CMake, configured the build. Then I > attempted to "generate" and this is where the first problem appeared. During > generation on Windows (through the MSVC Command prompt/32 bit) CMake is now > looking for $BOOST_ROOT/build/CMakeLists.txt file which it did NOT do on OS > X. I am using the same set of options on each platform. > > Comments anyone? Anyone want to see the bcp sources? > > <reasoning>Boost is just a HUGE dependence for just a few things that I need > (shared_ptr and threads). There are memory leak bugs that are not getting > fixed, bjam just sucks to use, and the shear size of boost is just insane for > my project (and others needing my project). So a small subset of Boost is > really all that is required. I can embed this into my project and the size of > my project will not get too out of hand. . Thanks for listening and any > comments.</reasoning>
I think that is great. Any idea if the boost powers that be will allow you to commit that? If not, perhaps it could be distributed with the CMake boost? _______________________________________________ Boost-cmake mailing list Boost-cmake@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-cmake
