On 08/28/18 16:38, degski via Boost wrote:
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 16:32, Andrey Semashev via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
... MSVC is required on Windows.
This is not what you asserted before.
I said it is MSVC-specific. Probably, I phrased it inaccurately and should have added "on Windows", but I didn't think platforms other than Windows were the main target anyway.
Point is, vcpkg is moving full speed to cmake only, which simply means it works on nix (and possibly osx) as well.
A project is in the making which will allow to use clang/llvm as a tool-chain (instead of MSVC) as well, but yes, it is in-flight. gcc is probably a bridge too far.
Yes, I understand that the direction is to make it more portable. We'll see how it goes. (Personally, I'm feeling skeptical, though.)