Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake

On Jun 20, 2017, at 3:19 AM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:

On 19 June 2017 at 22:38, paul via Boost mailto:boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

Actually, you might be interested in this cmake file:

https://github.com/pfultz2/cget/blob/master/cget/cmake/boost.cmake https://github.com/pfultz2/cget/blob/master/cget/cmake/boost.cmake

You can drop this in the top-level boost directroy and rename it to 'CMakeLists.txt', and it will under-the-hood generate a user-config.jam file with the setting from the cmake toolchain, and then build boost using this user-config.jam file.

It looks like this a number of caveats: * It doesn't import any of the targets generated by the boost project. Ideally they should be imported along with their usage requirements.

Nope, it only installs what boost gives you already.

* It doesn't deal with the dependencies of Boost libraries, be it where to find libc and libstdc++ (important when cross-compiling) or libz, python and ICU. * It doesn't deal properly with compilation and link flags, though it tries to

Nope, but PRs are welcomed :)