Well,
I got at least an "alpha" version up and working.
<http://gitorious.org/~imikejackson/boost/imikejacksons-boost-cmake>
This will add the necessary code to 'bcp' to copy the needed cmake
files so one should be able to create compilable subset of Boost
1.41.0 for their own use.
After I got bcp compiled I was wanting a boost with just the following
support: shared_ptr, program_options, thread.
I ran the following command line:
bin/bcp --boost=/Users/Shared/OpenSource/imikejacksons-boost-cmake --
unix-lines shared_ptr.hpp tools/build/CMake program_options.hpp
thread.hpp /Volumes/Users/mjackson/Workspace/MXABoost
which copied the needed files to /Volumes/Users/mjackson/Workspace/
MXABoost
I configured that for Visual Studio, NMake, Makefiles and all seem to
build correctly.
Again, Comments are welcome. The ending size of the Boost subset is
17.5 MB.
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Mike Jackson mike.jack...@bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer Dayton, Ohio
On Dec 10, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
On Dec 10, 2009, at 4:11 PM, James C. Sutherland wrote:
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?
Not that I would "do it" but I think I still have commit rights to
Boost SVN. The code needs some review first most likely and probably
the creation of a new option for bcp "include-cmake-files".
I guess I could clone Troy's repo on gitorious and post up there.
Mike Jackson
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