Re: [boost] [cmake] Minimum viable cmakeification for Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] [cmake] Minimum viable cmakeification for Boost
From: Thomas Heller (thom.heller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-21 17:58:02

Am 21.06.2017 7:44 nachm. schrieb "Niall Douglas via Boost" <
boost_at_[hidden]>:

On 21/06/2017 16:53, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Niall Douglas wrote:
>> But I suspect this is cart before horse, mountain out of molehill stuff.
>> I think 98% of end users are wholly doing one of these three use cases:
>>
>> 1. All shared Boost libraries.
>>
>> 2. All static Boost libraries.
>>
>> 3. Precompiled headers/Header only Boost libraries.
>
> Even if so, you still need to be able to answer the question "how do I
> link to Asio in such a way so that its dependency System is
> statically/dynamically linked?"

I'm saying that ASIO header only users almost certainly will also want
header only Boost.System.

Absolutely not. I'd prefer to link against compiled libraries. If only to
reduce compile times.

Niall

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