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Because nbind.gypi contains a bunch of various flags (such as -std=c++11), setting our own flags is actually a bit painful: one has to create another gypi file, include it after auto.gypi, and add a truthy condition inside (such as 1==1).

Is it really nbind's task to set the standard and optimization flags ? Shouldn't setting these flags be left to the user ? Or at least hidden behind a node-gyp variable ?

You're right. This is also related to issue #32. The default flags need to be provided somewhere to make usage easier, but there's three options for handling this better:

• Add a new node-gyp variable that disables the default flags, so you can define your own more easily.
• Add several variables for setting individual things like RTTI support and C++ standard version. A bit complicated to maintain.
• Tweak integration with autogypi so its --init-gyp command adds the flags to the new project's binding.gyp, so they can be removed from the main nbind.gypi.

How is this going?
I'm currently having issue with RTTI with msvc. Nothing I can do to override RunTimeTypeInfo option. I can manually edit nbind.gypi, change RunTimeTypeInfo to true and compiling alright.
Because I intend to publish my package, do I need to write a script to automatically do that before every install routine (configure && build) or will you guys have a solution for this problem later?