Re: [boost] Use of third-party libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] Use of third-party libraries
From: Roland Bock (rbock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-23 08:54:15

On 2014-07-23 14:09, Michael Shepanski wrote:
> On 23/07/2014 9:31 PM, Andrey Semashev wrote:
>> The library build scripts should perform auto-detection checks at
>> build time. I have something like this in Boost.Log, although I test
>> whether the compiler supports SSE/AVX and whether Message Compiler is
>> available. But the approach should be similar - you attempt to compile
>> a test application and set up build macros or select the actual
>> sources to build from.
>>
>> You can also take a look at Boost.IOStreams which detect if bzip2 and
>> zlib are available. Boost.Thread also contains some auto-detection
>> checks, I think.
>
> Thanks Andrey.
>
> It seems I'll have to lift my Boost.Build skills quite a bit. Fair
> enough.
>
> Also I'm thinking that my approach of having separate backend
> libraries is not right. The idea had been that a user decides which
> backend library to download and build, but that is not going to be
> happening a boost context. Everything should be in the "quince"
> library, every user downloads it all, and its build script decides
> which components to build.
Hi Michael,

There's also MySQL and MariaDb and Oracle and TransactSQL and Firebird
and BerceleyDB and I don't know how many else, but a lot. To me it does
not sound like a good idea to have all backends in one giant library.

Just my 2ct.

Regards,

Roland