Question

I have introduced boost to our code base, on my machine I created a boost directory called Thirdparty.Boost and added that as an additional include directory in my Visual Studio setting, all is fine.

However I now want to check in my changes, so the rest of the team can get them. Inorder to build the code they would need to setup boost as I have (problem number 1). In addition we have a build server, which will need changing (problem 2). I have a way of distributing boost to everyone including the build server, so that’s not a problem

I need a way of referring to the boost directory without changing the default settings in Visual Studio. Why don’t you change it on a project level I hear you cry? The solution has over 200 projects, which would require a lot of changes.

I just wondered if there was another way?

Cheers
Rich

Answer 1

What about adding an environment variable on each of your developer’s machines:

CL=-I<...the_boost_directory...>

i.e. on your machine:

CL=-IThirdparty.Boost

The MS compiler adds the value of the environment variable CL to its command line, so this should do the trick for you.