[CMake] CMake'ified Boost

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi James,
Make sens. Thanks for the follow up.
Jc


On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 5:06 AM, James Turner <james.turner at kdab.com> wrote:

> No I'm simply using custom build and update commands to run bootstrap.sh
> and bjam with appropriate args. I suspect this is the piece the Xcode
> generator can't cope with, but I didn't have time to investigate in detail
> yet.
>
> Regards,
> James
>
> On 21 Feb 2013, at 17:59, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <
> jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> 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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