Re: [boost] Let's stop distributing binaries

Subject: Re: [boost] Let's stop distributing binaries
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-08-30 14:56:24

James E. King III wrote:

> CMake can be taught to link against the static MSVC runtime.  It isn't 
> built-in, but there is a well known and accepted solution to the issue. 
> I'm not suggesting that it is an awesome solution but I have used it more 
> than once and it is sufficient:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14172856/cmake-compile-with-mt-instead-of-md

Didn't quite work for me. I needed to compile an existing library using 
CMake (which incorporated dependencies also using CMake), not write my own 
CMakeLists. It's a hack.