Jean-Sebastien stoezel wrote:
Hi,
I have been using Boot for desktop applications and I'm very happy with it. It allows me to write portable and reusable code on all the platforms I've been supporting.
I also develop C++ applications for small embedded devices, that have very limited ROM and RAM capabilities (several hundreds of kilo bytes of ROM and dozens of kilobytes of RAM). The Boost libraries cannot be used as is for these devices, since the OSes (RTOS I should say) that run on these devices are not supported by Boost. Then my code for these devices is not as portable and reusable as I which it would be. I've developed my own accross-platform generic interface for these devices and it's starting to look like Boost... Except it's not Boost and it's still very proprietary, in the niche sense.
I am very interested in having a (real) lite version of Boost for these embedded devices, even if it only consists of stub functions.
Is there already an on going effort to do this? Again, the idea is a lite version, something that would fit in less than 30% of the memory of a microcontroller.
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Hi, I would like to have some clarifications. Most of the boost libraries are header only; Is it about the size of the static/shared compiled libraries you are tallking? How many 30% of the memory of a microcontroller represents? What is the size of the libraries you need? Could you state what do you need that it is not portable on your platform? I don't know what can be done with a lite version (with stubs), could you eleborate? Have you tried to port the parts of Boost you need and don't work on your platform? I think most of the concerned authors will apreciate a patch? Best regards, Vicente -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Boost-Lite-Version-tp22496134p22496717.html Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.