Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-10 07:44:32

on Wed May 09 2007, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman-AT-kitware.com> wrote:

> K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
>>
>> Bill,
>>
>> Do you support the Pgi, Pathscale and Mipspro compilers?  What is  
>> involved in bringing up cmake support for compilers you don't support?
>>
>>   
> I know we can do Mipspro, and I think pgi has been done.  It is not hard 
> to add additional
> compilers.  It involves creating a .cmake file that describes some flags 
> and options for the
> compiler.

Boost.Build has "toolsets" that do something similar.  However, really
writing a good Boost.Build toolset involves much, much, more than
that.  Just look at tools/build/v2/tools/gcc.jam ... or
tools/build/v2/tools/python.jam: there's a lot of code in there for
supporting automatic toolset configuration.  How much of that will we
get from CMake?

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