Re: A proposal for a modern build-system

From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-05-06 23:34:00

On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM Artyom Beilis via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> And finding each of them in CMake is virtually two lines (header,
> library)  and I rarely use FindXXX with exception of some complex
> stuff
> (ironically boost python)
>

CMake does indeed have a really good support for finding & using external
dependencies. But it has it at a rather large cost. My approach over the
years has been to solve that problem for all build systems and package
managers through interop standards. And since I have limited time means
that other solutions for B2 specifically have not been followed on. But
also recently I've implemented support in B2 that is a step towards easier
use of external libs.

Now typically under windows you have two Debug and Release runtimes
>

There's also RelWithDebInfo and MinSizeRel.

> because they are ABI
> incompatible (not going to why they did such a dreadful decision - but
> it is another topic)
>

You might as well start assuming that everything is ABI incompatible if you
want to prepare yourself for hardened std's.

So I do understand practicality of Boost Build bjam for Boost itself
> (as long as you don't need any 3rd party)
> but I find it rather unpractical for outside of the Boost crib
>

Understand.

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