[vtkusers] CMake Boost with VTK?

[Michael Jackson]

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Mike Jackson.

On May 27, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:

> I tried to subscribe to the list, but have not received a single  
> email (will try again). I am using the CMake build system with VTK  
> in Titan. For VTK we don't even need to compile do we? We just use  
> the header only libs as far as I could tell.
>
> That said, the Titan dashboard is building Boost using CMake, and  
> then VTK, and then some other stuff. This is tested daily. I have  
> also tested the 1.43 release with CMake build system, and that works  
> fine here, but we are using 1.41 in Titan.
>
> Marcus
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net 
> > wrote:
> So basically there is the Boost-Cmake located at www.gitorious.com/boost
>
> Development stopped at Boost 1.41.0 due to someone stepping forward  
> to do all the merges/testing with the newer releases of boost. I  
> think someone did a clone and applied some of the boost 1.42 patches  
> to their clone but nothing "official" from boost.org. The git repo  
> is there if someone wants to step forward and coordinate a release.
> ___________________________________________________________
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> BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio
>
>
>
> On May 27, 2010, at 11:52 AM, David Doria wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Andrew Maclean
> <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
> Last time I looked at the CMake version of boost it looked to be
> preliminary. I note that there is no mention of the CMake version in
> the latest release, 1.42. I have reverted to using the usual bjam
> version.
>
> Andrew
>
> So what is the consensus? Are we recommending that people do not use
> this? As you mentioned, in the "official" release they are still not
> using cmake, but the cmake version seems to work fine with VTK. That
> change to the CMakeLists.txt I proposed doesn't really hurt anything,
> right? But it allows people to use this version if they choose.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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