On Tuesday 09 March 2010 13:26:43 Butch Slayer wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 08:37, Butch Slayer <butch [dot] slayers [..] ...>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm attempting to compile RTT 1.10.2 on windows. Apparently some boost
> > > libraries are required:
> > > - boost_thread
> > > - boost_program_options.
> > > Can I do without these? If I don't have to compile boost, I won't.
> > > Also
> >
> > I
> >
> > > would not like to compile those libs for our embedded target.
> >
> > You can do without compiling Boost. The program options is unused (but
> > future RTT versions may require it to process options from ORO_main()
> > ). I'm not sure why boost_thread is triggered, normally you can
> > disable it since on Windows, we use the native API, not boost.
> >
> > If you don't want to compile boost on Windows, you can still download
> > a precompiled version from boostpro.com
> >
> > Peter
>
> CMake tells me they are required :-( I used the cmake-gui on windows. Maby
> there is still a reference somewhere in a cmake-file?

On line 54 of config/check_depend.cmake :
find_package(Boost 1.33 COMPONENTS program_options thread)

which means it's optional. Maybe there's a bug in the boost detection logic,
you can uncomment that line.

Peter