qis/boost

Vcpkg boost ports overlay that respects custom toolchains and installs CMake configuration files.

Boost

Vcpkg boost ports overlay that respects custom toolchains and installs CMake configuration files.

Advantages

Advantages over the default vcpkg boost port are:

• Builds much faster.
• Installs working CMake configuration files.
• Uses the system layout (no more cryptic library names).
• Downloads all of boost at once instead of downloading single components.
• Uses compiler and compiler options set by the vcpkg toolchain.
• Generates b2 configs that support MSVC, GCC and Clang.
• Respects the global CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD setting.

This port also includes libraries that are not yet part of the boost project.

• CPPAlliance/json
• CPPAlliance/url
• pdimov/describe

Disadvantages

Disadvantages over the default vcpkg boost port are (patches welcome):

• Disables the mpi and graph_parallel components to reduce build times.
• Disables the python component beacuse it is unclear which version to support.
• Does not build libiconv support because of the license.
• Does not build icu support because it requires MSYS2.
• Only supports 64-bit triplets for Windows and Linux.
• Components cannot be built separately.

How it Works

• create.cmake generates empty ports for all boost components.
• boost/CMakeLists.txt configures boost and builds all supported components.
• boost/portfile.cmake installs boost and patches generated CMake configuration files.

Requirements

Install vcpkg following the official documentation.

Usage

Clone this repository and generate ports.

cd C:/Workspace || cd /opt
git clone git@github.com:qis/boost boost
cmake -P boost/create.cmake

Install boost using the ports overlay.

cd C:/Workspace || cd /opt
vcpkg install --overlay-ports=boost/ports boost