[Bf-committers] Development Environments

Brecht Van Lommel brechtvanlommel at pandora.be
Tue Dec 11 10:58:36 CET 2012


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Chad Fraleigh <chadf at triularity.org> wrote:
> I read a comment stating that boost 1.52 has native support for
> VS2012. Would it be too confusing to start using that version for just
> windows without upgrading the other platforms (not that they couldn't
> [eventually] -- it would just be extra work with no real gain, except
> consistency).
>
> Also, I'm guessing the bundled VS2010 compiled boost is from an old
> version? It is using -s- (release?) instead of -sgd- (debug?) for the
> lib names and some headers are missing.

Using a newer boost should be ok.

Further, I could commit your libraries but what we really need is a
proper plan to clean up of this stuff. There have been complaints that
our lib/ directory is getting too big, so we should try to split it
up. Usually you only need libraries for one visual studio version, and
only a few developers need the debug libraries which tend to be huge.

We should figure out a directory structure to make it possible to
checkout only the needed subset, before we start adding a new batch of
libraries for vs2012. Headers can be shared, maybe some (C only?)
libraries can be as well. And then cmake/scons build systems should
also be updated to follow this new structure.

Brecht.


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