Unix build - Boost isn't optional

[Tezirg]

Hello, I am using Ubuntu 18

Great work guys, evpp is really well designed. I've noticed that evpp is advertised as a c++11 library but it is impossible to build it without installing boost.

They are different build targets to compile both versions with and without boost but there are not options to disable the boost build. Therefore, it is not optional as advertised.. https://github.com/Qihoo360/evpp/blob/master/evpp/CMakeLists.txt#L33

In the same fashion, there are no options to disable the building of apps & labs / Or to build only in static release. https://github.com/Qihoo360/evpp/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L89

Would it be possible to add such options in the future ? Like libevent does ?

For example, we could imagine a set of CMake options like: EVPP__DISABLE_BOOST EVPP__DISABLE_APPS EVPP__DISABLE_LABS

libevent options example: https://github.com/libevent/libevent/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L127 libevent conditional build example: https://github.com/libevent/libevent/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L966

Cheers

[gocpplua]

Yes, when I want to compile a version that does not apply to boost, it keeps failing