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