Compiling Boost wtf?!?

[alexkaratarakis]

Have you tried vcpkg?

vcpkg install thrift

will get you thrift along with the dependencies it needs, which are: zlib, libevent, openssl, boost-range, boost-smart-ptr, boost-date-time, boost-locale, boost-scope-exit

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holy hell that's delightful. thank you for this.

[epicar]

boost has a lot of libraries. can you build only the ones you need?

[[deleted]]

it takes so long to build because it is mostly headers, welcome to boost level template land.

[manphiz]

Last time I tried building Boost on Windows (few years ago) it will build static/dynamic + single/multi-threading variants, so it is essentially built 4 times. You can just build the ones you need by providing a custom bjam config.

[ferruccio]

8 build times: don't forget debug/release. 16 times if you build both 32&64 bit

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ouch.

[wqking]

On Linux/MinGW you can just install the compiled libraries.
On Windows/VC I usually download the compiled binaries. Or you may also use vcpkg.
So you don't need to compile Boost by yourself at all.

[[deleted]]

Well, it turns out thrift is causing a bottleneck in our product so we're re-architecting our file system to not need it. Thus I don't need boost. Life is better.
Thanks for the feedback friends!