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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows
From: Ernest Zaslavsky (ernest.zaslavsky_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-07-08 06:24:43

Not completely accurate, check with Sergey Shandar (AFAIR, MS Engineer) he started to ship prebuilt boost just recently, before it he was shipping it as source files which were built with project.

In any case, how it supposed to work in your case, lets say my solution depends on zlib, openssl and boost, how it would work?

From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Eric Mittelette
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 12:59 AM
To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows

Hey
Nuget was designed to Managed code and don't really satisfy all C++ constraints/specificities.
Nuget is about prebuilt binaries, and in this new approach we try to give a solution to rebuild from source.

eric

From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Ernest Zaslavsky
Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 8:44 PM
To: boost-users_at_[hidden]<mailto:boost-users_at_[hidden]>
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows

Hi,
And what happened to the native NuGet packages idea? It is quite convenient way to get, use and update third parties.

From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Eric Mittelette
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2016 2:49 AM
To: boost-users_at_[hidden]<mailto:boost-users_at_[hidden]>
Subject: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows

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 3rd party libraries on Windows.
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.