[Owasp-esapi-c++] Boost

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Daniel Amodio
<dan.amodio at aspectsecurity.com> wrote:
> Has anyone gotten Boost (more specifically boost test) working on windows with mingw/gcc ?
Do we really have to do that?

I would really prefer to write *nix code on *nix, and Windows code on
Windows. For the most part, all code should cross over without much
fuss. Otherwise, we've got an additional layer that needs to be
audited :(

> I'm getting an ungodly amount of compile errors, no matter what I do.

My apologies in advance.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owasp-esapi-c++-bounces at lists.owasp.org [mailto:owasp-esapi-c++-bounces at lists.owasp.org] On Behalf Of Kevin W. Wall
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:31 AM
> To: David Anderson
> Cc: owasp-esapi-c++ at lists.owasp.org
> Subject: Re: [Owasp-esapi-c++] Boost
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:25 AM, David Anderson <david.anderson at aspectsecurity.com> wrote:
>> I looked at the Boost libraries some time ago for classes that I
>> thought might be useful in ESAPI-C++.  This was my list:
>>
>> Bimap
>> DateTime
>> Filesystem?
>> Program Options
>> Property Map
>> Regex/Xpressive
>> System
>> Test
>> Tokenizer?
>>
>> While there may be a number of alternatives for some of these, I like
>> the fact that Boost seems to be viewed as something of a standard by
>> the community.  In fact, it is my understanding that some subset of
>> all of the Boost libraries is being considered for inclusion in the
>> C++ Standard.  For me, all other factors being equal, this tips the balance in favor of Boost.
>
> Works for me. And like Daniel remarked in a separate email thread, if we are going to use Boost at all, then we probably might as well use Boost Test for unit testing.
>
> Anyone have any objections? If so, speak now or forever hold you peas.
>
> -kevin
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