16 Sep
2024
16 Sep
'24
4:49 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 9:23 AM Peter Dimov via Boost
As a serendipitous data point, I was just made aware that the nice folks behind Compiler Explorer have enabled linking to compiled Boost libraries:
https://godbolt.org/z/1fcoKra8n
They build Boost with CMake and use the Github CMake release archives.
In a similar vein, vcpkg actually did the same thing: switched their package files from using b2 to CMake. In these kinds of cases, I think it's just that most projects can handle CMake projects in some capacity whereas b2 is a strong outlier so when applicable, it gets eschewed. - Christian