RE: [CMake] CMakeifying Boost

2006-02-20 Thread Ken Martin
CMake has a great book published that tells a lot of stuff. CMake has a great Mailing list were users exchange information constantly, and As an update, the third edition of the book was sent to the printers a few weeks ago and should be in stock either Friday this week or early next week. It

Re: [CMake] CMakeifying Boost

2006-02-17 Thread Filipe Sousa
John Biddiscombe wrote: I know the subject has come up a couple of times... I'm fed up with having to install boost on every system I have to compiled something on. I'd like to have a Boost utility dir in my source which will build itself along with all the other cmake controlled projects.

Re: [CMake] CMakeifying Boost

2006-02-17 Thread Amitha Perera
And I'll chime in that I've CMakeified the boost threading library, and it was pretty trivial. I put the header files in one place, and listed all the .cpp files in libs/thread/src into a library target. I changed config/user.hpp to define BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB to supress their library version

Re: [CMake] CMakeifying Boost

2006-02-17 Thread christopher baus
And I'll chime in that I've CMakeified the boost threading library, and it was pretty trivial. I put the header files in one place, and listed all the .cpp files in libs/thread/src into a library target. I changed config/user.hpp to define BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB to supress their library version

[CMake] CMakeifying Boost

2006-02-16 Thread John Biddiscombe
I know the subject has come up a couple of times... I'm fed up with having to install boost on every system I have to compiled something on. I'd like to have a Boost utility dir in my source which will build itself along with all the other cmake controlled projects. (Preferably broken into

Re: [CMake] CMakeifying Boost

2006-02-16 Thread Brad King
Brandon J. Van Every wrote: John Biddiscombe wrote: I've used boost a lot, but never spent much time looking at the configuration or build. Has anyone given much though to how hard it'd be to CMakeify Boost? (And even if the boost maintainers aren't interested in using CMake, we could put

Re: [CMake] CMakeifying Boost

2006-02-16 Thread John Biddiscombe
Brandon I'm not really interested in converting the boost maintainers to cmake. I'm not at all interested in what they think about cmake (Political buy-in is of no concern to me). I have cmakeified so many projects that doing one more (even if it's quite a big one) doesn't put me off. (And I