From 46a3f6dccf36d4b52d51dfd0be619dcd2727cc5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuri Kunde Schlesner Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:53:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add instructions on how to update the repo to the readme --- Readme.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md index 1714124..1f27bc1 100644 --- a/Readme.md +++ b/Readme.md @@ -2,3 +2,22 @@ Boost libraries - trimmed down for Citra ======================================== This is a subset of Boost v1.63.0 generated using the bcp tool. To get a list of boost modules guaranteed to exist, check the build script. + +Updating this repo (on Windows) +=============================== + +To update the Boost version (or to add a new library) follow these steps: + + - Download Boost and extract the package, then launch Powershell and `cd` to the `boost_1_xx_0` directory. + - Build the `bcp` tool: + ``` + .\boostrap.bat + .\b2 tools\bcp + ``` + + - Store the boost directory in a variable for later use: `$boost_dir = $pwd`. + - Add bcp to your path: `$env:Path += $boost_dir\bin.v2\tools\bcp\msvc-14.1\release\link-static\threading-multi` (The correct output path should be printed by b2 during the build.) + - `cd` to this repo's directory (`...\externals\boost\`) + - Remove the existing boost from the repo: `rm -r boost` (This is only necessary if doing a Boost version upgrade, in case they removed any files in the new version.) + - Run `.\build.cmd $boost_dir` to build a new trimmed down distro. + - Add/remove all files in git and commit.