I would like to use the halfedge data structure of CGAL in my project.
Since it is licenced by LGPL, I would prefer to distribute this small piece together with my software, instead of requiring the installation of this big library on the user's system.
So my question is, is there something like boost's bcp for Cgal? I started to manually copy the halfedge source files but it looks fairly compicated.
thank you in advance
There is currently no automated way to extract only a subset of CGAL headers or just a package including its dependencies. You can try to do this manually though by just following all include dependencies.
Even if you do this, the biggest problem is that CGAL assertions require linking to libCGAL. You can avoid this by disabling the assertions through the CGAL_NDEBUG macro. It's also not easy to see from a CGAL distribution if a package compiles code into libCGAL, but neither Polyhedron nor Halfedge_DS do that, so you should be fine.