Re: [Boost-users] Boost & Continuous Integration

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost & Continuous Integration
From: Ovanes Markarian (om_boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-27 04:42:20

Sure it works.
It depends how you design your interfaces. If you consequently use boost in
cpp files only and declare in a header a pointer to a pImpl object, that
works very well (with Visual Studio as well). Robert, I would suggest for
you to take a look in the book: Large-Scale C++ Software Design by John
Lakos. There he explains all that idioms and how to organize projects for
better compilation speed. And much more other things.

http://www.amazon.com/Large-Scale-Software-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/0201633620/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240821340&sr=8-1

I did it many times in my projects and it always worked well.

Additional articles by Herb Sutter can be of help:

http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/024.htm
http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/007.htm

Regards,
Ovanes

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Igor R <boost.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> > One possible solution would be to use pImpl idiom and use boost in cpp
> files
> > via the forward declartion. This might work in conjunction by splitting
> one
> > big project in producing multiple libs or shared objects (dlls) and link
> > against binaries with slim headers.
>
> The problem is that such an approach doesn't work if a project
> contains a lot of class templates, which in turn use boost.
> MSVC9 has /MP switch that enables "build with multiple processes", but
> it's very limited, as it conflicts with /Gm (enable minimal rebuilds)
> and some other options...
>