[CMake] CMakeifying Boost

[Filipe Sousa]

John Biddiscombe wrote:
> I know the subject has come up a couple of times... I'm fed up with 
> having to install boost on every system I have to compiled something on. 
> I'd like to have a Boost utility dir in my source which will build 
> itself along with all the other cmake controlled projects. (Preferably 
> broken into Boost::lib1, Boost::lib2 etc etc modules)
> 
> I've used boost a lot, but never spent much time looking at the 
> configuration or build. Has anyone given much though to how hard it'd be 
> to CMakeify Boost?
> (And even if the boost maintainers aren't interested in using CMake, we 
> could put together a distro once every few months with a latest release...)
> 
> Anyone got any views?
> 
> JB

I cmakeified boost once for fun. I was not that hard, most of boost are 
header files only. The jam files are easy to understand. I was able to 
build filesystem regex smart_ptr and test libraries.

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Filipe Sousa