Re: [Boost-cmake] boost cmake status

From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-06 15:29:01

Matthias Schabel wrote:
> After experiencing non-stop frustration with building boost 1.36 on OS X 
> with bjam/boost.build, I was excited to discover that there has been 
> significant work on porting to CMake. A couple of questions:
> 
> 1) where are the most current CMake build files located?

$SVN/branches/CMake/release.  I'm not sure how long it has
been since a merge was done from the main branches/release.

> 2) are build options for static vs. dynamic and single vs. 
> multi-threaded implemented?

Yeah, see

   http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CMake

> 3) can we build Universal binaries?
> 4) can we build an OSX Framework?

I believe cmake supports all this.  It shouldn't be terribly difficult,
of course you don't know until you try...  :)

Anyhow, you might be more interested in the new installer stuff
Doug has been putting together:

   http://www.osl.iu.edu/~dgregor/Boost-CMake/

A test run and report back would be appreciated, I'm sure.  Hope to hear 
  back from you,

-t