[CMake] FindBoost.cmake updated on the bugtracker

[Mike Jackson]

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Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Apr 12, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2008-04-12 10:07+0200 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>
>> <personal opinion>
>> My experience with MinGW so far is that its simply not ready yet for
>> projects such as boost or KDE, they still need some time. Thats why
>> I won't do work on getting KDevelop4 working on MinGW - at least not
>> without someone paying for it.
>> </personal opinion>
>
> That's fine, but then somebody else with access to windows should
> volunteer to do that testing since MinGW is an extremely important  
> platform.
>
> I don't have access to windows myself, but I have been fascinated  
> over the
> years at just how popular MinGW has been at SourceForge.  Usually,  
> that
> software is in the top 25 projects there (rated in terms of an  
> activity
> index made up of a number of factors including downloads).  For  
> example,
> from
> http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php? 
> group_id=2435&ugn=mingw&type=prdownload&mode=12months&year=2008&packag 
> e_id=0
> they have from 300 to 600 thousand (!) downloads per month over the  
> last
> year.
>
> Finally, from our PLplot experience, MinGW (fortunately we do have  
> a couple
> of developers with access to that platform) works fine if you make  
> some
> special adjustments for its needs.  So Andreas's above statement  
> probably
> needs to be reversed, i.e., boost and KDE need some time/effort to  
> work on
> MinGW.  Such effort should be worth it since there is obviously _a  
> lot_ of
> interest in the MinGW platform that would be a shame to ignore for any
> project.
>
> My $0.02.
>
> Alan
>
> __________________________
> Alan W. Irwin
>
>

And just to add some more info about boost:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/more/getting_started/ 
windows.html#identify-your-toolset

Under the "Toolset" column is "gcc" with the following description:
gcc
The Gnu Project
Includes support for Cygwin and MinGW compilers.

So, boost is directly supporting MinGW. So should FindBoost.cmake.

Now.. if we could just convince Boost to switch to CMake from bjam..

Cheers
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Mike