Re: [boost] CMake Announcement from Boost Steering Committee

Subject: Re: [boost] CMake Announcement from Boost Steering Committee
From: Thorsten Ottosen (tottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-19 17:05:15

Den 19-07-2017 kl. 18:58 skrev paul via Boost:
> On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 12:39 -0400, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:

>> Please look at the 'lib' rule in Boost Build at
>> http://www.boost.org/build/doc/html/bbv2/tasks/libraries.html and tell
>> me why you think Boost Build does not support prebuilt libraries.
> 
> But it only searches along the default compiler paths and additional paths
> added in the build script. There is no way for me to inform bjam that I
> installed my dependencies in another directory.
> 
> That is, I installed my dependencies in /deps. So how do I tell boost to look
> for zlib and bzip2 there? I can't say `--prefix-path /deps` and it will find
> them. Instead I need to say `-s ZLIB_LIBPATH=/deps -s BZIP2_LIBPATH=/deps`. A
> custom variable for each one.

For example, you may say

lib SqlApi : : <name>sqlapi <search>$(DEPENDENCY_ROOT)/lib/Debug 
<variant>debug ;
lib SqlApi : : <name>sqlapi <search>$(DEPENDENCY_ROOT)/lib/Release 
<variant>release ;

-Thorsten