Re: [boost] Cmake

Subject: Re: [boost] Cmake
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-24 18:42:04

On 6/24/2017 1:05 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> P F wrote:
>> https://github.com/pfultz2/boost-cmake-demo/tree/bcm-demo
>>
>> The library for Boost.System is just:
>>
>> bcm_boost_package(system
>>   VERSION 1.64
>>   SOURCES
>>     src/error_code.cpp
>>   DEPENDS
>>     assert
>>     config
>>     core
>>     predef
>> )
> 
> This certainly looks cleaner. It needs to distinguish between public and 
> private dependencies but that's easy to fix. And of course there's the 
> question who will maintain the version and the dependency list.

Shouldn't this be generated on the fly ? The sources are all files in 
the library's 'src' subdirectory and the dependencies come from your own 
boostdep.

> 
>> And this works for both `add_subdirectory` build and standalone builds.
> 
> Provided that the user has installed BCM, I presume? Because otherwise 
> find_package(BCM) won't work.