Why not give them a binary? 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.
Greets,
Christian
On 7/29/05, Joseph Turian
Hi,
I'm packaging some software for distribution, and the software depends upon the 'program_options' library.
I don't want to assume that the user has boost installed, or ever jam. So I was wondering about the potential for automagically building and using the 'program_options' library if it is not already present on the user's system.
I would include the source files in libs/program_options/, and write a small Makefile for it. I would also include all the Boost headers.
Is this sufficient, even though it wouldn't run the Boost configure script to determine system-specific settings? Can you see any problems in building this library without doing a full Boost install?
Thanks!
Joseph
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