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Getting Started with Modularized Boost Library Development

This is a work in progress

Prerequisites

Overview

  • Your library has its own public repository that has a "develop" branch for development work, and a "master" branch for your releases, which occur asynchronously from Boost releases. You may also have other branches, but that's up to you.
  • The Boost super project has its own public repository. It treats your library as a sub-module, i.e. a link to a particular release in your library's public GitHub repository.
  • You (and the rest of your team) do day-to-day development using private repositories on your local machines. You push changes from these local private repos up to your library's public repo whenever you want. The local repos may also have private branches that are never pushed to the public repo.
  • Your library's directory structure conforms to Boost directory structure conventions, so both users and automatic processes can find header files, test files, build configurations, and the like. Beyond the conventions, your library's directory structure is up to you.

Directory Structure

For Modularized Boost, header files are placed in a include/boost header hierarchy within your main directory. Here is what a very simple header-only library named simple would look like:

     simple
       include
         boost
           simple
             twice.hpp
       test
         twice_test.cpp
         Jamfile.v2
       index.html   

Creating the simple library

  • With your web browser, sign into your GitHub account and create a repository named simple. Select the option to automatically create a README file. Copy the URL of the newly created repository to your clipboard.
  • From the command line, cd to a directory suitable for experimentation, clone the newly created repository, and create the library's directory structure:
    git clone git@github.com:Beman/simple.git
    cd simple
    mkdir include
    mkdir test
    cd include
    mkdir boost
    cd boost
    mkdir simple
    
  • Using a text editor, create a file named twice.hpp in simple/include/boost/simple:
    #include <string>
    namespace boost { namespace simple {
    inline std::string twice(const std::string& s)
    {
      return s + s;
    }
    }}
    
  • cd to simple/test and create a file named twice_test.cpp using a text editor:
    #include <boost/simple/twice.hpp>
    #include <boost/detail/lightweight_test.hpp>
    
    int main()
    {
      BOOST_TEST(boost::simple::twice("foo") == "foofoo");
      return ::boost::report_errors();
    }
    
  • Also in simple/test, create a file named Jamfile.v2 using a text editor. Be careful to leave spaces between syntax elements as they are required:
    test-suite simple :
        [ run twice_test.cpp ]
        ;
    

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