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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows
From: SamJam Liddicott (samjam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-07-08 04:26:44

It all puts me in mind of:

apt-get -b source libfoo-dev

Sam
On 8 Jul 2016 12:56 a.m., "Edward Diener" <eldiener_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 7/7/2016 6:05 PM, Eric Mittelette wrote:
>
>> 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)
>>
>
> What does this command line tool use to build an external lib ? What does
> "lib" as in "external lib" encompass ? What does "project" mean ?
> What programming languages are supported ?
>
> I gather you are saying that you are endeavouring to create a command line
> tool to build a "lib" from source, which is on the web somewhere, and then
> integrate the resultant file(s) into a "project", however you define it. I
> gather this is officially being done by Microsoft.
>
> I still think you need to be more specific if you want to interest
> developers. In particular you are also not specifying what you think
> individual Boost libraries or Boost developers are meant to add to your
> idea(s). It is all still really very vague.
>
> 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.
>>>
>>
>
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