Re: Can we create boost-config

From: Дмитрий Архипов (grisumbras_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-09-06 11:41:39

This sounds like a pkg-config package. In fact, several projects moved from
such custom scripts to pkg-config.

Anyway, the main problem here is to make the build system (b2) output those
flags in a parseable manner. If that was implemented, it could be used to
make pkg-config packages, CMake config modules, etc.

Another problem is that different boost libraries will require different
build flags to use them, so you'll actually need e.g. boost-thread-config,
boost-filesystem-config (or boost-thread.pc and boost-filesystem.pc if
pkg-config is used).

пн, 6 сент. 2021 г., 14:03 Sreeraj K via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>:

> *[I initialially raised this question in
> https://github.com/boostorg/boost/issues/548
> <https://github.com/boostorg/boost/issues/548>, but @mclaw recommended
> this
> mailing list.]*
>
> Similar to many other packages (eg: curl, krb5, pcre, xml2, xslt etc..),
> can we also ship boost-config that would provide the installation options ?
>
> We can probably start with something like this ?
>
> $ /usr/bin/boost-config --help
> Usage: boost-config [ options ]
>
> Options:
>   --cflags             print compiler options
>   --ldflags            print linker options
>   --prefix             print the boost prefix
>   --version            print the boost version
>   --help               print this usage summary
>
> $ /usr/bin/boost-config --version
> 1.66.0
> $ /usr/bin/boost-config --cflags
> -I/usr/include
> $ /usr/bin/boost-config --ldflags
> -L/usr/lib64 -Wl,-R/usr/lib64
>
> Thanks.
>
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