Re: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows
From: Eric Mittelette (ericmitt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-07-07 18:05:05

Hi Edward

Acquiring in my message mean, the way to developers to build an external lib and add it to his project.
So our intention is to provide a command line tool (in first approach) who is capable to list and build libraries for windows platform.
Developers can use this tools to see which libraries are available and with a simple option strt the buil process for the target chosen (x86, x64 UWP, ARM)
eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Edward Diener
Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 4:33 AM
To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows

On 7/5/2016 7:49 PM, Eric Mittelette wrote:
> Hello
>
>
>
> I'm Program Manager at Microsoft, working on VC++ Libraries team (VC 
> runtime, STL...)
>
> We are working on the spec of a tool to acquire 3^rd party libraries 
> on Windows.

"acquire 3^rd party libraries on Windows" ?

I am unfamiliar with what this is supposed to mean ? Outside of the programming world, "acquire" usually means "buy", but I don't think that even Microsoft wants to buy something that is not being sold <g>.

Perhaps you need to explain what your intentions are ?

>
> We are targeting mainly OSS libraries, our tool will help dev to 
> rebuild locally from the source code on Windows.
>
>
>
> Today we have a proto, based on a port tree approach. (having a repo 
> with the build script and the associated patch file)
>
> I wanted to have a discussion with the Boost community about this 
> project, and how dev could acquire Boost this way.
>
>
>
> Feel free to contact me to initiate this discussion, we'll be happy to 
> share our idea and prototype with you and collect feedback and suggestions.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Eric Mittelette
>
> Senior Program Manager - Visual C++ (VCLib)
>
> Microsoft Corp.

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