Re: [boost] Using both boost 64 and 32 bit on Windows with CMake

Subject: Re: [boost] Using both boost 64 and 32 bit on Windows with CMake
From: Klaim - Joël Lamotte (mjklaim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-16 16:05:34

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Andrey Semashev
<andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>wrote:

>
> You're not bound to these particular variables. CMake scripts can use
> environment varables and command line switches, which covers different
> configurations quite well. Just define a couple of your configuration
> variables for different targets and be done with it. You can even create
> your
> own CMake module that handles all the configuration specifics you have.
>
>
Yes, but it don't solve the problem "in general as there is no general way
to identify boost binaries other than the
native ones. Which means even if I provide a FindBoost version which is
modified (like Michael's one)
it will only work if the developer have put the binaries the way I decided
they should be, not in a "conventional" way,
which is my problem.

> > > The documentation of a find module is whatever is written at the
> beginning
> > > of the file in question.
> >
> > The HELP documentation is whatever is written when you use "cmake
> > --help-module <module-name>" and once again that variable is not
> > documented in the "cmake --help-module FindBoost" command.
> >
> > Not everybody like to have to dive in the source files of their tools to
> > understand them, or have time to do so.
>
> I think CMake documentation issues are not relevant to Boost per se.
>
>
Yes, as said before I made an issue ticket in their tracker so it's
recorded.

Joel Lamotte