Re: Contribution to core library

From: anshu khare (anshukhare1998_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-01-12 13:37:02

Respected sir,
I am able to build boost libraries in Visual Studio 17.
Could you please link me some fixes in the library?
Thank you
Regards
Anshu Khare

On Sat, 11 Jan, 2020, 9:50 PM Andrey Semashev via Boost, <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 2020-01-10 17:02, anshu khare via Boost wrote:
> > Hello mentors,
> >
> > I would like to contribute to the core library of BOOST. I am working on
> > windows. I cloned boostorg/core library. After cloning I found that there
> > are many folders.
>
> Using Boost.Core alone is not possible. You have to at least also clone
> the dependencies. More realistically, you should clone Boost
> superproject[1] and all its submodules, which will include Boost.Core
> and its dependencies.
>
>    git clone https://github.com/boostorg/boost.git boost
>    cd boost
>    git submodule update --init --recursive
>
> After that you need to bootstrap Boost.Build as described in the Getting
> Started page[2] and create links to library headers by invoking `b2
> headers` in your Boost root directory. After that you will be able to
> build Boost libraries and run tests. Building libraries is described in
> Getting Started, to run tests you can just invoke `b2` (possibly with
> arguments) in the libs/<library>/test directory.
>
> > Could you please tell which folder should I look up?
>
> In the Boost tree, you'll be working in libs/<library> folder. Each
> library has a set of common subfolders, such as:
>
>    meta - library description
>    include/boost - public headers
>    src - buildable sources and private headers
>    build - Boost.Build scripts for building the library, if there are
> buildable sources
>    example - library usage examples
>    doc - library documentation
>    test - library tests, including Boost.Build script for testing
>
> So, for Boost.Core you'd be writing headers in
> libs/core/include/boost/core, writing and running tests in
> libs/core/test, etc. When you create new headers you'll have to invoke
> `b2 headers` in the Boost root again to create links to the new headers.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/boostorg/boost/
> [2]:
> https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_72_0/more/getting_started/windows.html
>
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