Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: Michael Marcin (mmarcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-09 19:30:33

I'm confused as to what CMake actually does.  Is it just a generator for 
various makefile/IDE projects from a common description?  Does it do 
dependency tracking and incremental builds?  Does it do MD5 summing?  I gave 
a cursory glance at the website but didn't find my answers.

For what I read in this thread it sounds like if I'm building my 
documentation it should spit out a vcproj which and then open and hit build 
on which then builds my quickbook application and all the libraries it 
depends on if they don't exist or aren't up to date and then runs quickbook 
to generate my boostbook xml then runs xlst-proc to generate my html 
documentation.  I don't really understand how that is possible.

Thanks,

Michael Marcin