Geometry Boost List: Re: [geometry] WKB extention

From: Majid Hojati (asd56yu_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-05-20 02:25:11

Hi Mateusz,
Thanks so much for your help. It really helped me a lot.

With the best,
Majid Hojati

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 5:16 PM Mateusz Loskot via Geometry <
geometry_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 19-05-18 00:52:00, Majid Hojati via Geometry wrote:
> >I am new to the boost library, I was looking for a wkb conversion for
> boost
> >geometry and find out that it exists as an gis extension but I could not
> >find it when I installed boost using apt-get install on Linux.
>
> Since they are extensions, they are not released into `master` branch [1],
> so they are not included in the Boost official release.
>
>
> >I was wondering if there is any specific way to install extensions on
> Linux?
>
> You can clone the repo and checkout the `develop` branch, then copy any
> extension you need from [2] directory.
>
> Alternatively, you can follow this instruction [3] which is:
> - shallow clone of the Boost superproject
> - initialise bunch of required modules
> - run depinst.py to grab any required Boost libraries
> - bootstrap b2 driver
> - deploy all headers
>
> And, simply, use Geometry from this custom installation - it's a
> header-only
> library after all, no binaries to build and link against.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/boostorg/geometry/tree/master/include/boost/geometry
> [2]
> https://github.com/boostorg/geometry/tree/develop/include/boost/geometry/extensions
> [3]
>
> https://github.com/boostorg/geometry/blob/develop/.circleci/config.yml#L56-L65
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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