Add Boost download and compilation before use it

[vicente-gonzalez-ruiz]

There is a problem using Boost from the package repositories in some OS (for example, Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS). We think that a good solution could be to include in the file make.py an option to compile p2psp-console using downloaded (and compiled) version of Boost. The compilation of Boost could be stored in a temporal directory inside p2psp-console.

[anu1097]

The compiled binary version of boost can be downloaded from here https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/. But after putting it in a separate directory in p2psp-console how do we link it in make.py ?

[vicente-gonzalez-ruiz]

Hi @anu1097 . Thanks for working in this issue. Two comments: (1) I think that it is preferable that we download the source and compile it, and (2) if I'm not wrong, it is possible to indicate to cmake where is Boost through the CMakeLists.txt commands:

set(BOOST_ROOT "/usr/local/boost_1_59_0")
set(Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS TRUE)
set(BOOST_INCLUDEDIR "/usr/local/boost_1_59_0/include")
set(BOOST_LIBRARYDIR "/usr/local/boost_1_59_0/stage/lib")

where /usr/local/boost_1_59_0 is the path to the downloaded (and compiled) Boost (don't use this version, use the last one).

But, notice that we don't want to add this stuff to this file. We prefer to manage all this only using make.py.

Thanks!

[abhay44]

@vicente-gonzalez-ruiz You want to download and compile the whole boost libraries using make.py? am I correct?

[vicente-gonzalez-ruiz]

@abhay44, right. If we download a compiled Boost we run the risk of getting the same errors :-/

[abhay44]

@vicente-gonzalez-ruiz there are lot of boost libraries and the compilation takes more time if we manually download and compile them.Is it ok? or do we have other option?

[vicente-gonzalez-ruiz]

Hi @abhay44 . Check P2PSP/core#127

[abhay44]

@vicente-gonzalez-ruiz I think we can close this issue. Fixed in P2PSP/core#127.

[vicente-gonzalez-ruiz]

Right. Please, do that.