Dear Boosters, Can you point me to instructions for specifying dependency on Boost in an autoconf/automake project? I'd like the configure script to have an option --with-boost=... to point to a Boost installation, to specify a minimum required Boost version, and to require the presence of particular Boost libraries. Searching the list and the web does not seem to give a definitive answer. Thanks for help, Ilya
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:55 PM, ilya shlyakhter
Can you point me to instructions for specifying dependency on Boost in an autoconf/automake project? I'd like the configure script to have an option --with-boost=... to point to a Boost installation, to specify a minimum required Boost version, and to require the presence of particular Boost libraries.
I use Tsuna's `boost.m4`, which allows you to do what you want with code like the following: # check for needed Boost libraries BOOST_REQUIRE([1.45]) BOOST_STATIC BOOST_SERIALIZATION BOOST_STATICASSERT BOOST_TEST([], [have_boost_test=no; AC_MSG_WARN([Could not find a usable Boost.Test library; not compiling test programs.])], [have_boost_test=yes]) AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_BOOST_TEST], [test "_$have_boost_test" = '_yes']) You can download `boost.m4` from its Guthub repo: https://github.com/tsuna/boost.m4 Cheers, Riccardo
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