AMDG dhruva wrote:
Is there a particular reason that you can't just install all the headers and just ignore the libraries that need to be built?
I could do that but an accidental inclusion of a header file that tries to implicitly link to a boost library would fail. I will know the reason but my fellow developers will start analyzing the problem that I want to avoid.
In that case, you can just add an appropriate #error directive to boost/config/auto_link.hpp
I chatted on #boost and decided to use the following batch file to get the header only part from BOOST (it can be a shell script too):
I put the following lines in a batch file (M$) and pass the bjam build options like prefix or layout:
@SET BOPT= @FOR /F "skip=1 tokens=2" %%a in ('bjam --show-libraries') do @SET BOPT=!BOPT! --without-%%a @ECHO bjam %* %BOPT%
The output (with install appended) is the command to extract and install the header only part.
This copies all the headers including those for non-header only libraries. In Christ, Steven Watanabe