Re: Interest for C++20 modules support of boost officially

From: Ruben Perez (rubenperez038_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-01-13 18:54:49

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, 19:20 Peter Dimov via Boost, <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Ruben Perez wrote:
> > [1] https://anarthal.github.io/cppblog/modules3
>
> > In particular, CMake under Windows doesn’t support the usual Visual
> Studio generators when building modules.
>
> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-cxxmodules.7.html
> says that Visual Studio 17 2022 is supported.
>

It also says it doesn't support installing modules and building EXPORTED
targets involving modules, including the std module, so I don't think it
would be usable with the prototype I wrote, at least as it is now.

I thought modules didn't work at all with the Visual Studio generators, so
thanks for bringing that up.