Boost and Xcode, united through CMake
A while back I complained about my problems with developing applications using Boost in Xcode. Between then and now I had a long period where I couldn’t even get Boost compiled on my Mac.
Now, however, I’ve found that there is a CMake based distribution of Boost. This is great since CMake can Xcode projects directly, which makes it easy to make sure the libraries build will work with projects I make directly in Xcode. Which incidentally is also why I was happy to see Bio++ move to CMake.
My only problem now is that I have a bunch of old software based on Automake that uses Boost. They don’t seem to play well together on my Mac. I should port those to CMake, but first I need to learn how to use CMake, and time is not something I have plenty of at the moment. Maybe this should be a project for the summer holiday.
Does anyone know of any scripts that can assist me in converting Autoconf/Automake configurations to CMake?