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) 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.
Best,
Eric Mittelette
Senior Program Manager - Visual C++ (VCLib)
Microsoft Corp.
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