Build on Linux with local Boost

[agladilin]

Ubuntu 22.04 supplies Boost 1.74. I would like to link the cppparser with it. Can we have this supported?
The code below does this.

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f9c14db5..1c5c275a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ project(cppparser)
 
 enable_testing()
 
-include("../common/cmake/conf.cmake")
+#include("../common/cmake/conf.cmake")
 
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
 
@@ -17,9 +17,18 @@ add_subdirectory(third_party/btyacc_tp)
 
 add_definitions(-DBOOST_AUTO_LINK_NOMANGLE)
 
-add_subdirectory(../common/third_party/boost_tp/cmake  ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/boost)
+#add_subdirectory(../common/third_party/boost_tp/cmake  ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/boost)
 
-include_directories(../common/third_party)
+#include_directories(../common/third_party)
+
+set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS OFF)
+set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON)
+set(Boost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME OFF)
+find_package(Boost COMPONENTS filesystem program_options REQUIRED)
+
+if (NOT EXISTS "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/catch/catch.hpp")
+  file(DOWNLOAD "https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2/releases/download/v2.13.10/catch.hpp" "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/catch/catch.hpp")
+endif()
 
 #############################################
 ## CppParser
@@ -72,18 +81,18 @@ set(CPPPARSER_SOURCES
 )
 
 add_library(cppparser STATIC ${CPPPARSER_SOURCES})
-add_dependencies(cppparser btyacc boost_filesystem boost_program_options)
+#add_dependencies(cppparser btyacc boost_filesystem boost_program_options)
 target_link_libraries(cppparser
 	PUBLIC
-		boost_filesystem
-		boost_program_options
+		${Boost_FILESYSTEM_LIBRARY}
+		${Boost_PROGRAM_OPTIONS_LIBRARY}
 		boost_system
 )
 target_include_directories(
 	cppparser
 	PUBLIC
 		pub
-		../common/third_party/boost_tp
+		#../common/third_party/boost_tp
 	PRIVATE
 		hack
 )
diff --git a/third_party/btyacc_tp/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/btyacc_tp/CMakeLists.txt
index a1cfa01d..c675f138 100644
--- a/third_party/btyacc_tp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/third_party/btyacc_tp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-include("../../../common/cmake/conf.cmake")
+#include("../../../common/cmake/conf.cmake")
 
 project(btyacc)
 

Also please note that the file(DOWNLOAD ...) directive is used in order to download catch.hpp. Thus I got rid of https://github.com/satya-das/common.git repo usage.

[satya-das]

Using local boost is too complicated and doesn't guarantee compilation on all machines.

[agladilin]

Current build procedure requires at least two projects (cppparser and common) downloaded and built in the hardcoded file paths. Please note that common already uses a certain version of boost which may conflict with the default boost version of your Linux. It is also quite complicated.

It would be great to reduce the number of dependencies that need manual building. Ideally, I would like that my project would be built with a single cmake && make command along with all the dependencies (cppparser and others). However a single command cmake && make && make install into standard directories (/usr/* or c:\Program Files) made in cppparser would also fit my needs.

I tried to use vcpkg. May be this is the case for you? Please, have a look at PR: #37
I even made a try to contribute my fork of cppparser into vcpkg itself but failed. Luckily, I guess, since you are back at last.