Re: [Boost-users] Include boost in software distribution?

From: Christian Henning (chhenning_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-29 09:52:53

Why not give them a binary? If this doesn't work, than try a script
that executes the bjam compiling only the program_options, which I
believe also need the biggest lib of boost, serialization.

Greets,
Christian

On 7/29/05, Joseph Turian <turian_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>  I'm packaging some software for distribution, and the software depends upon
> the 'program_options' library.
>  
>  I don't want to assume that the user has boost installed, or ever jam. So I
> was wondering about the potential for automagically building and using the
> 'program_options' library if it is not already present on the user's system.
>  
>  I would include the source files in libs/program_options/, and write a
> small Makefile for it.
>  I would also include all the Boost headers.
>  
>  Is this sufficient, even though it wouldn't run the Boost configure script
> to determine system-specific settings?
>  Can you see any problems in building this library without doing a full
> Boost install?
>  
>  Thanks!
>  
>    Joseph
> 
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