Bcbboost
is a family of patches that improve support
for the Borland/CodeGear
compilers in the Boost
libraries. The purpose
of this project is to allow users of the latest version of C++
Builder
to make use of Boost
without having to wait for the next release.
Bcbboost
would not have been possible without the
tremendous job done by Alisdair Meredith to maintain Borland
compatibility in Boost
. Other contributions came from Juan Antonio
“Zara”
Zaratiegui Vallecillo and Russell Hind.
Nicola Musatti
News
8 nov 2008
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I re-ran the regression tests after installing Update
1 for C++ Builder 2009 and the results are exactly the same as my previous run. No change is required.
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5 nov 2008
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Boost
1.37.0 was released a couple of days ago. It contains many CodeGear
specific fixes aimed at both C++
Builder 2009 and C++ Builder 2007.
Most of these are the work of Alisdair Meredith and other CodeGear
employees and were made available as part of the custom Boost 1.35
distribution that is included with CB2009. Here are the test
results
for the 6.1.0 and 5.9.3 compilers.
As it is I do not plan to issue a new bcbboost
release, however I still need to check what changed in the newly
released Update
1 for C++ Builder 2009. Unfortunately it came out too late to
be taken into account for Boost 1.37.0.
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4 may 2008
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Different posts to the CodeGear
and Boost
newsgroups expressed concern about how Borland/CodeGear compilers
perform with Boost
1.35.0, given that they are not "officially
supported" and that there isn't a corresponding bcbboost release. For
this reason I decided to post test
results for the 5.6.4, 5.8.2 and
5.9.3 compilers. As you can see the latter
performs somewhat better than the other two, but several libraries
still work with all of them.
Still, I think it's important to stress the fact
that since the 1.34.x releases several libraries' authors have
increasingly adopted SFINAE
based techniques to tweak their libraries'
interfaces. As only the 5.9.x compiler supports these techniques,
albeit incompletely,
support for earlier compilers is likely to diminish in the forthcoming
Boost releases.
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5 jan 2008
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The recently released December Update
introduces a new version of bcc32, 5.9.3 . This can be
used with Boost
1.34.1 / bcbboost 1.34.1-5.9.2-0.2
by modifying accordingly tools\build\v2\user-config.jam
and
by changing all occurences of 0x592 with 0x593 in boost\config\compiler\borland.hpp
. Test results are almost identical
- the two new passes for Boost.Python are not very significant - but
there is already a bug
report.
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15 sep 2007
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A new release, 1.34.1-5.9.2-0.2
,
is available. It is meant specifically for Boost
1.34.1
and
C++Builder 2007 Update 3,
but should also work with bcc32 5.9.1 and 5.9.0, as well as with
Boost 1.34.0 .
It includes improved support for the Iostreams and Parameters
libraries. Test results are available here.
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17 aug 2007
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The current release, 1.34.0-5.9.0-0.1
,
works also with the latest Boost release, 1.34.1
; if you have
installed Update
2
you need to apply the fix described below.
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14 aug 2007
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If you're
using bcbboost
with C++Builder
2007 and you intend to install Update 2
you need to edit boost\config\compiler\borland.hpp
and change all
occurencies of 0x590 into 0x591 . I'm investigating other changes that
may be required and hope to come
out with a new version in a short time. Many thanks to Andrew Bond for
the heads up.
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15 jun 2007
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C++
Builder 2007
is out and so is a new bcbboost
release, 1.34.0-5.9.0-0.1
. Here you can find the corresponding test results.
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