Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement

Subject: Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-09-14 18:02:42

On 9/14/2018 10:05 AM, Alexander Grund via Boost wrote:
> The major problem I see are the variants.
> 
> - b2 can build multiple variants in one go (static, dynamic, runtimes...)
> - Encoding these variants has to be reflected in the target names/aliases
> 
> CMake FindBoost solves this by requiring to set some variables to select 
> a set of variants and set the appropriate aliases to this set.
> 
> Think about how you reflect this in the CMake buildsystem. E.g. some 
> libraries may depend explicitly on a static or dynamic version of 
> another library (which can be expressed in bjam)
> 
>> The practical problem for most libraries, which are largely 
>> header-only, is converting the library jamfile for tests and building 
>> docs into CMake terms. Building non-header only libraries is actually 
>> much less of a problem for converting from Boost Build to CMake, even 
>> if it will get the vast majority of the comments 
> This won't be to bad either once the variants problem above is solved. 
> CTest is quite powerful so except for a few corner cases I expect it to 
> be straight forward.

CTest has absolutely no notion of compile-time testing. This was 
mentioned to CMake on their mailing list a long time ago and got the 
usual yawns from the CMake people.