Re: [boost] Default variants on windows

Subject: Re: [boost] Default variants on windows
From: Carlo Medas (carlomedas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-08 09:45:27

Dear Volodya,
as a Windows (and Linux and Mac) developer using boost both from
VisualStudio IDE and from autogenerated makefiles of Cmake, I would suggest
to either keep it as it is, although MSVC by default opens
projects/solutions in debug mode.

In other case I would suggest to add also debug mt variants; but building
all variants not only takes ages, but also takes a very huge amount of disk
space.

Kind regards,

Carlo Medas

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Hansi wrote:
>
> > Vladimir Prus schrieb:
> >> Per:
> >>
> >> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2899
> >>
> >> we have a problem that the default set of libraries
> >> build on Windows does not match autolink defaults, which
> >> causes confusion. In that issue, John say that the only
> >> sensible solution for Windows is to build all possible
> >> variants by default (IIRC, a total of 6). I would like
> >> other Windows developers to comment if that is sensible
> >> solution. In particular, is it best to build all possible
> >> variants that user might need, or build just the variants
> >> that autolink needs by default, so that user can build other
> >> later.
> >>
> >> Note that I can add arbitrary explanation messages into
> >> the build process -- both to warn the user that a scary
> >> pile of things will be built, and to warn the user that only
> >> couple of variants will be built.
> >>
> >> - Volodya
> >
> > I think it is needed also SCL_SECURE variant! it is really important...
>
> I am afraid this is not the answer to my question. If you implicitly
> suggest
> that we build 12 variants by default, then I'm afraid this is just not
> practical. Nobody will have the patience to wait till the build is done.
>
> - Volodya
>
>
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