Re: Interest for C++20 modules support of boost officially

From: Ruben Perez (rubenperez038_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-12-22 15:31:29

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 at 14:29, Cameron Angus via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> >  The targets are installed by the Boost.CMake infrastructure
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> As mentioned in the Slack discussion I'm more of a build2 user lately so my
> CMake knowledge is a bit out of date. It's possible there is also some
> Windows/Linux difference here. However, I'm sure that in CMake projects
> I've worked on in the past, we've always used boost without an install
> step. The boost CMake scripts would simply be pulled (one way or another,
> CMake seems to have many ways of doing things, and I guess package managers
> are another way of doing this) into the project, and boost targets linked
> against as needed. With this approach, boost components are simply built as
> part of the consuming project so there are none of the issues that come
> with prebuilt binaries.
>
> I realise that installation is something that needs to be solved
> eventually, but I'd be surprised if the above approach wasn't fairly
> common, so if it works I think it would be the most straightforward and a
> good first goal to aim for.

I think we usually refer to this as the "add_subdirectory workflow".
Maybe I'm worrying about the installation workflow too much. We don't
maintain the CMake scripts that package managers use AFAIK, so I can't
speak about them.

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