Re: CMake minimum version to support

From: Deniz Bahadir (deniz.bahadir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-06-03 22:23:40

Am 03.06.21 um 13:25 schrieb Rainer Deyke via Boost:
> ... CMake requires GNU Make plus a whole bunch of development libraries.

This is not entirely correct.

In order to build CMake you need, besides a C++11 compiler, some "make" 
tool, which can be GNU Make but could also be Ninja or some other make 
tool (possibly the one coming with Visual Studio).
And one of these you will need anyway (as generator) if your wish to 
build Boost with CMake.

The "bunch of development libraries" that CMake requires for building 
(curl, expat, zlib ...) can be used from the OS, but by default CMake 
uses the ones it brings itself.

Therefore, building (and installing) CMake locally without the need for 
root access should be possible without any problem.

Deniz

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