Re: [Boost-build] External library support

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-12 23:09:25

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Alex Besogonov wrote:
>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>> Note... I'm close to having the wxWidgets support that builds wx done. 
>>> Work obligations means I have have to get it done by Monday :-) That said...
>> How did you implement it? Using my wxWidgets.jam or by adding BBv2 files 
>>   to the wxWidgets' sources?
> 
> Neither. I read in and parse the build/bakefiles/file.bkl. And use the 
> results to declare my own set of library targets that match the targets 
> in monolithic.bkl and multilib.bkl. The interface for declaring a set of 
> libraries is something like:
> 
> using wxwidgets : 2.6.3 : C:/Development/wxWidgets-2.6.3 :
>    --enable-monolithic --with-msw --disable-protocols ;
> 
> That is, it uses the same options available from the configure script in 
> wx (or close to it). And it doesn't change the wx tree in any form, so 
> there's no need to go through the configure setup and one can build 
> different variants from the same tree.

PS. If it wasn't obvious... I do what the bakefile plus autoconf plus 
automake do in one 900 line file :-)

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