Point being, I don't want someone not to use my software because they're
(justifiably) daunted by the prospect of installing the entire Boost
distribution. Rather, I want to make the build process as simple and
flexible as possible.
Ideally, my software should be sufficiently idiot-proof that anyone could
untar the package, issue a single command ('./build.sh'), and get a clean
complete build without doing any else, even if they don't have Boost
installed.
On 7/29/05, Christian Henning
Why not give them a binary?
Because I don't know what platform they're on. I'm sure you can think of other reasons why distributing binaries is dispreferred. If this doesn't work, than try a script
that executes the bjam compiling only the program_options, which I believe also need the biggest lib of boost, serialization.
Although 'program_options' depends upon quite a few headers, I tried it out and---if I'm not mistaken---you can build and link it into code using just the source files in program_options/. No serialization code is necessary. Also, potential users of my software may not have bjam installed. I'm trying to eliminate as many hurdles for the end-users as possible. Thanks, Joseph -- http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~turian/