[boost] Re: [preprocessor] Digital Mars port

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-01 05:52:10

Jonathan Turkanis writes:
> "Daniel James" <daniel_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:pan.2004.07.31.13.50.45.178006_at_calamity.org.uk...
> > I've ported the preprocessor library to the Digital Mars
> preprocessor. The
> > patch is at:
> >
> > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/calamity/patches/preprocessor-1.patch.gz
> >
> > With it, the only test which doesn't pass is the BOOST_PP_LINE test in
> > debug.cpp, because the preprocessor has problems with macro expansion in
> > #line statements.
>
> This is qute an achievement! Congratulations.
>
> If the preprocessor library works, a lot of the rest of boost should
> compile.

Regression tests are the best way to see how much work is left. Anyone
interested in setting them up?

The setup instructions are available at
http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/regression_setup/instructions.html
and the Digital Mars/STLPort toolset is
documented here -- 
http://www.boost.org/tools/build/v1/dmc-stlport-tools.html.

> Have you tried to use type traits and mpl?

FYI, the new version of MPL will play much nicer with the latest Digital
Mars.

--
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering