Re: [boost] [Ann] Boost and Google Summer of Code 2007

From: Kevin Heifner (heifner_k_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-04 19:01:02

Bjørn Roald wrote:
> Kevin Heifner wrote:
>> BTW, MPC comes with boost base projects to derive from to make it 
>> very easy to use boost with a project.  For, example here is a 
>> mpc file contents for a project that uses boost_thread and 
>> boost_unit_test_framework:
>>
>> project : boost_unit_test_framework, boost_thread {
>> }
>>
>>   
> 
> Typically I guess you would at least list some source files as well:
> 
> project : boost_unit_test_framework, boost_thread {
>   Source_Files {
>     a.cpp
>     b.cpp
>   }
> }

Actually the default is to grab all the *.cpp files in the 
directory.  So this is all that is needed:

project : boost_unit_test_framework, boost_thread {
}

As long as you want all the source files in the directory.

> But yes, they are simple enough.  Especially compared to typical IDE 
> based project files.   If you compare them to Boost.Build files the 
> difference is not that great.  I guess the annoying thing is that they 
> pretty much reflect the same information, so the tools could at least in 
> concept have been  inter operable on the same set of project files. 

Agreed.

> So does Boost.Build :-)  A study of the format differences and 
> similarities of the Jamfile and .mpc files would be interesting.  Has 
> anybody looked into this?  

That would be interesting.  I confess that I'm not that familiar 
with Boost.Build.

KevinH
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