Re: [Boost-users] How to fetch boost libraries and their dependencies from github via CMake

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] How to fetch boost libraries and their dependencies from github via CMake
From: Sergiu Dotenco (sergiu.dotenco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-29 09:29:46

On 29.05.2015 12:30, Gonzalo BG wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have a CMake project that requires some header-only boost libraries:
>   - container, dynamic_bitset, math, units
> 
> I would like CMake to always fetch automatically the latest version of
> these libraries and their dependencies from github as an external project.
> 
> AFAIK FindBoost doesn't do this, is there maybe a different cmake script
> that does?

Have you looked into the ExternalProject module distributed with CMake?
http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/module/ExternalProject.html