Re: [Boost-users] Can I copy/paste Boost source code and compile directly into my application?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Can I copy/paste Boost source code and compile directly into my application?
From: Totally Anonymous (anon24u_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-07-28 22:34:44

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Michael Chisholm <chisholm_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> On 7/28/2012 3:56 PM, Fred wrote:
>
>> Dear Boosters,
>>
>> I would like to use the Boost/regex library in my application,
>> but I don't want my users to have to install Boost.
>> My preference would be to copy a minimal set
>> of Boost .hpp and .cpp files into a sub-directory
>> of my application and then
>> compile and link the boost/regex stuff
>> in the same way as the rest of my
>> application.
>>
>> Note that the regex library is not a header-only library.
>>
>> So, is there a reasonably straight-forward
>> and well-accepted procedure to do this?
>>
>> Apologies if this topic has already been covered,
>> but I can't seem to get a hit.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
> I guess I don't understand the concern.  Does your app require your users
> to install source code?  Or are you talking about binaries?  Most
> installers include all required dependencies; it's pretty rare to require
> users to pre-install something else before installing your app.  Is there
> some reason you don't want to bundle it all together?  Do you just want
> your app to consist of a single executable, so you don't have to distribute
> DLLs/so's?  If so, why not just statically link the libraries?
>
> Andy
>
>
>
I don't have an installer, just a fairly simple Makefile to build the
executable from my source code. So I'd like to just add the appropriate
targets to the Makefile to compile&link whatever I need to from Boost. I
don't want my users to have to 'apt-get install' anything else...   Am I
wrong?

Thx