b2 for C++?

• build2

  5 543 9.2 C++

  build2 build system

  

Yes, this is a common stumbling block for users with the CMake background. The underlying reason is that build2 is a "multi-repo first" build system while CMake is "mono-repo first" (or perhaps even "mono-repo only"; I don't think there were repositories as we know them when Autotools was designed ;-)). In particular, in build2 it's common to build multiple independent projects/repositories in a shared build configuration. Putting this build configuration as a subdirectory of source directory of one of them would be strange. You can read more on this in this issue: https://github.com/build2/build2/issues/187

• boost-dependency

  2 0 0.0 C++

  Boost dependency breeding test

``` git clone https://github.com/boris-kolpackov/boost-dependency cd boost-dependency bdep init -C ../build-msvc @msvc cc config.cxx=cl # my msvc default build bdep init -C ../build-clang @clang cc config.cxx=clang++ # my default clang build

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• Qt6

  1 0 8.5 C++

  build2 packages for the Qt6 libraries

  

I think in your case the most challenging aspect (apart from getting used to a new build system philosophy) will be code generators simply because to get this right (i.e., with proper dependency tracking, etc) requires quite a few moving parts. You can see an example of this in our libQtCore buildfile that handles moc: https://github.com/build2-packaging/Qt6/blob/master/libQt6Core/QtCore/buildfile

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