wiki:CMakeTODO

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CMake TODO List

These are some features that we would like to implement in the CMake-based build system for Boost (in no particular order).

  • Many libraries have empty or incomplete CMakeLists.txt. Review the CMakeLists.txt files against the Jamfile.v2 files and synchronize.
  • Triage or fix bugs reported against the CMake component in Trac
  • Regression testing:
    • For each library, automatically introduce a test that uses the "inspect" program to verify that the library meets all of Boost's coding and licensing requirements (and anything else that inspect checks).
  • Modularization of documentation generation, so documentation for a single library can be generated and installed along with documentation for the other libraries.
  • Determine how the "tools" directory should fit in with "libs". Right now, "tools" is disabled because it doesn't work well with modular libraries.
  • Building and testing against an installed tree:
    • Allow a single Boost component's sources to be downloaded and built against an installed Boost
    • Allow regression tests to be built and executed against an installed Boost
    • Update regression-testing scripts to simulate a user's usage: build a Boost tree, build its installer, execute the installer, build the regression tests against the installed version (separately!), run regression tests and report the results.
    • Can one download, configure, and install a subset of components built against an installed tree and each other?
  • "Modularize" the rest of the Boost libraries
  • Add description, author, and maintainer information to the CMakeLists.txt files for all of the libraries.
  • Testing on more platforms and tweaks for those platforms
  • Add CMakeLists.txt files for regression tests for libraries new in 1.35.0 that don't already have them, e.g., asio.
  • Generate and install pkgconfig files, so that Boost libraries can be found via pkgconfig
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