[CMake] CMake'ified Boost

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi James,

On a slightly different topic, you mentioned you were using Boost, did you
find a version of boost > 1.49 that was CMake'ified ?

Here is the one I found: http://gitorious.org/boost/cmake/trees/cmake-1.49.0

Thanks
Jc


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>wrote:

> On 2/21/2013 10:34 AM, James Turner wrote:
>
>> I've just setup a SuperBuild using ExternalProject, and am pleasantly
>> surprised how well it works so far.
>>
>> I've encountered one issue, which is awkward - I'm basically using
>> the SuperBuild to automate assembling / updating dependencies for the
>> final sub-project, which is the real project I normally work on. I
>> typically work on that project using Xcode and the Xcode generator.
>> The problem is, if I use -G Xcode for the super build, some parts
>> fail (and to be honest this is no surprise - amongst the dependencies
>> is Boost, for example).
>>
>> So the question, can I safely set things to use a different generator
>> for a CMake-based ExternalProject, and still have a top-level build
>> of everything? The documentation for how the generator flag is
>> handled by ExternalProject_Add, makes me think there might be
>> something 'magic' happening. (This would mean, for example, the
>> top-level Makefile called xcodebuild to build the xcodeprojs I
>> guess)
>>
>> I didn't yet try this on MSVC, I'm curious what the situation will be
>> there with the same setup. Is a top-level NMake build with msbuild of
>> VisualStudio child projects possible?
>>
> It should work.  I do VS project builds with VS all the time.   The Xcode
> generator should work as well.  It passes the tests for external project.
>  So, that should be something that should be fixed.
>
>
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