Cannot specify WINAPI version to build against

[sodevel]

With b2 i can specify the Windows API version to build against with e.g. define=BOOST_USE_WINAPI_VERSION=0x0601 but unless i miss something this cannot be done for the CMake build.

[pdimov]

@Lastique what do you think about this? A CMake option in winapi comes to mind.

[Lastique]

In my libraries, I'm mirroring C++ defines to CMake options, so one would specify e.g. -DBOOST_USE_WINAPI_VERSION=0x0601 in cmake command line and that translates to the equivalent C++ define. I'll add this in Boost.WinAPI's CMakeLists.txt.

[Lastique]

Done in boostorg/winapi@c5fb9c8.

[sodevel]

Not sure if this is the right place for this nor am i involved with boost and know their policies, but looking at the cache variables, it looks like they are following the form BOOST_<LIBRARY>_FOO_BAR. Your introduced variable does violate this form, a valid variant would look like BOOST_WINAPI_USE_WINAPI_VERSION.

[pdimov]

That's OK because it mirrors the macro name.

[Lastique]

The intention was that BOOST_USE_WINAPI_VERSION would be a Boost-wide macro that affects all libraries using Windows API.

[nigels-com]

@sodevel Anything further needed for this one?
Can the ticket be closed?