Re: [Boost-cmake] CDash dashboard now available

Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] CDash dashboard now available
From: Doug Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-13 00:06:27

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Doug Gregor <doug.gregor_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Vladimir Prus
> <vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 12 May 2009 20:50:19 Doug Gregor wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Vladimir Prus
>>> <vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> > On Monday 11 May 2009 19:40:35 Doug Gregor wrote:
>>> >> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Vladimir Prus
>>> >> <vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> >> > On Monday 11 May 2009 01:24:08 Beman Dawes wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> >> I'm going to experiment with pre-built binary installers, with an eye
>>> >> >> to supplying them for the 1.40.0 release.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > For what platforms?
>>> >>
>>> >> Windows and Mac will give us the biggest "bang", I think. Building
>>> >> binaries for Linux is better left to the distribution maintainers, and
>>> >> with Windows and Mac we get the graphical, component-based installers
>>> >> that allow people to get a subset of Boost.
>>> >
>>> > Do you, or anybody else, have an installer I can play with? It does not
>>> > matter if that's beta-quality, or alpha-quality, or even barely-working.
>>>
>>> I can build one for Mac OS X tonight. Do you have access to a machine
>>> running Mac OS 10.4 or 10.5?
>>
>> Not really -- x86 would be more convenient.
>
> x86 on what platform? I was planning to build x86 binaries for Mac OS
> 10.4 and 10.5. We might be able to prod someone into building x86
> Windows binaries. Any takers?

x86 Mac binaries (which should work on Tiger and above) are available here:

  http://www.osl.iu.edu/~dgregor/Boost-1.40.0-Darwin.dmg

It's one big, 38MB installer.

By flipping a switch in the CMake configuration, we can create a
smaller installer that downloads only the selected components
on-the-fly. However, I haven't figured out where to permanently host
the downloaded package files.

Also, for the real installer, we might want to build
PowerPC/x86/x86_64 fat binaries, since that's the "right" way to
distribute libraries on the Mac.

  - Doug