Re: [boost] vc8.0 toolset (bjam)

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-01 10:21:54

Hmmm, I hadn't realized John was going to change it (we went to all the 
trouble of checking for the environment variable just so we COULD keep the 
original path)

John, I think looking in the registry is a BAD idea... the Environment 
variables are readily visible to users, the registry is NOT

At Friday 2004-10-01 07:15, you wrote:
>At Friday 2004-10-01 04:00, you wrote:
>>>it's vc8.0-tools.jam
>>of course ;)
>>
>>>and I thought we'd addressed those problems by referencing off the 
>>>environment variable
>>>VS80COMNTOOLS
>>>which is on both of my systems on which Visual Studio 2005 beta is 
>>>installed.
>>
>>That should work too.
>>Something like:
>>
>>VS80COMNTOOLS/../../VC8
>
>
>This is what's currently in the CVS
>
>extends-toolset msvc ;
>
># singleton variables...
>set-as-singleton VC80_ROOT ;
>
>if ! $(MSVCDir)
>{
>     if $(VS80COMNTOOLS)
>     {
>         VC80_ROOT ?= $(VS80COMNTOOLS:J=" ")..\\..\\VC ;
>         VC_TOOL_PATH = "$(VC80_ROOT)"\\bin\\ ;
>         VC_SETUP = "CALL \"$(VC_TOOL_PATH)VCVARS32.BAT\" >nul" ;
>     }
>     else
>     {
>         ProgramFiles ?= $(PROGRAMFILES) ;
>         VC80_ROOT ?= $(ProgramFiles:J=" ")"\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\VC" ;
>         VC_TOOL_PATH = "$(VC80_ROOT)"\\bin\\ ;
>         VC_SETUP = "CALL \"$(VC_TOOL_PATH)VCVARS32.BAT\" >nul" ;
>     }
>}
>
>VC_PDB_NAME = vc80 ;
>
>feature native-wchar_t : on off ;
>
>flags vc8.0 C++FLAGS : /Zc:forScope ;
>flags vc8.0 C++FLAGS <native-wchar_t>on : /Zc:wchar_t ;
>
># The following #// line will be used by the regression test table generation
># program as the column heading for HTML tables. Must not include version 
>number.
>#//<a 
>href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/whidbey/default.aspx">Micro-<br>soft<br>VC++</a>
>
>
>
>>Best,
>>John
>>
>>--
>>John Torjo
>>-- john_at_[hidden]
>>
>>Contributing editor, C/C++ Users Journal
>>-- "Win32 GUI Generics" -- generics & GUI do mix, after all
>>-- http://www.torjo.com/win32gui/
>>-- v1.4 - save_dlg - true binding of your data to UI controls!
>>    + easily add validation rules (win32gui/examples/smart_dlg)
>>
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