Re: PSA: C++11 libraries need to update their libraries.json and CMakeLists.txt

From: Zach Laine (whatwasthataddress_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-10-02 15:16:27

Could you clarify why this is happening for these libs in particular?
Not a complaint; just curious.

Zach

On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 7:21 AM Peter Dimov via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Libraries that now require C++11, such as Atomic, TypeIndex, LexicalCast,
> need to update their libraries.json files to now state "cxxstd": 11, and
> to add the C++11 requirement to their CMakeLists.txt files, e.g.
>
> target_compile_features(boost_lexical_cast INTERFACE cxx_std_11)
>
> boostdep --cmake looks at libraries.json and automatically adds the
> above requirement, so for generated CMakeLists.txt files (such as the
> one in lexical_cast), a simple regeneration with e.g.
> `boostdep --cmake lexical_cast` will suffice.
>
> Note that cxx_std_11 requires CMake 3.8, so the
> cmake_minimum_required line may need to be adjusted as well.
>
> (`boostdep --cmake` does that automatically.)
>
>
>
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