It all puts me in mind of:
apt-get -b source libfoo-dev
Sam
On 7/7/2016 6:05 PM, Eric Mittelette wrote:
Hi Edward
Acquiring in my message mean, the way to developers to build an external lib and add it to his project.
So our intention is to provide a command line tool (in first approach) who is capable to list and build libraries for windows platform.
Developers can use this tools to see which libraries are available and with a simple option strt the buil process for the target chosen (x86, x64 UWP, ARM)
What does this command line tool use to build an external lib ? What does "lib" as in "external lib" encompass ? What does "project" mean ?
What programming languages are supported ?
I gather you are saying that you are endeavouring to create a command line tool to build a "lib" from source, which is on the web somewhere, and then integrate the resultant file(s) into a "project", however you define it. I gather this is officially being done by Microsoft.
I still think you need to be more specific if you want to interest developers. In particular you are also not specifying what you think individual Boost libraries or Boost developers are meant to add to your idea(s). It is all still really very vague.
eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Edward Diener
Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 4:33 AM
To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Acquiring and rebuilding C++ libraries on Windows
On 7/5/2016 7:49 PM, Eric Mittelette wrote:
Hello
I'm Program Manager at Microsoft, working on VC++ Libraries team (VC
runtime, STL...)
We are working on the spec of a tool to acquire 3^rd party libraries
on Windows.
"acquire 3^rd party libraries on Windows" ?
I am unfamiliar with what this is supposed to mean ? Outside of the programming world, "acquire" usually means "buy", but I don't think that even Microsoft wants to buy something that is not being sold <g>.
Perhaps you need to explain what your intentions are ?
We are targeting mainly OSS libraries, our tool will help dev to
rebuild locally from the source code on Windows.
Today we have a proto, based on a port tree approach. (having a repo
with the build script and the associated patch file)
I wanted to have a discussion with the Boost community about this
project, and how dev could acquire Boost this way.
Feel free to contact me to initiate this discussion, we'll be happy to
share our idea and prototype with you and collect feedback and suggestions.
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