Re: [ros-users] communicating with windows

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Subject: Re: [ros-users] communicating with windows

> I am trying to build this with VS10 and so I am adding cases to the
> cmake files where necessary, but the version of boost that you guys
> are shipping does not have VS10 compiler versions. So, I have been
> trying to use an outside boost installation (1_44). What is the
> easiest way to go about this, because all of the variables are getting
> set through find_library which has the library search path hard coded
> to the externals folder in the repository? Should I add to the
> find_library search path some how or for my one-off compiling short
> circuit the boost_single_lib macro?
>
> Thanks,
>

There should be no problem using the VS09 boost libraries with VS10. In
FindMyBoost.cmake use

SET( BOOST_COMPILER_NAME vc90 )

and remove all the rest. The distinction is just a relic from times we used VS2005 and VS2003. We will check this in detail on Monday.