[boost] Re: Open Watcom jam files [was: Re: Open watcom]

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-30 11:12:41

Reece Dunn wrote:

>> I've installed it and am trying to figure out how to write the base .jam
>> for the compiler (need to read how to use it from the command line 1st,
>> I guess) then I'll add it to my regression collection.
> 
> I am looking at an installation on v1.3 and from the quick scan I have
> done it seems that it should be possible to adapt the MS VC++ toolset
> (both BBv1 and BBv2) since Open Watcom:
> [1] provides an environment setup file at [ow]/setvars.bat (whereas for
> MS it is [vc]/bin/vcvars.bat.
> [2] provides an implementation of cl.exe at [ow]/binnt/cl.exe -- it
> should be easy to adapt to open watcom.
> 
> As far as I can tell, this should be fairly trivial for BBv1. The
> question is: how do we deal with BBv2.
> 
> Looking at this in general, the Digital Mars compiler provides a CL
> adapter, so it should be possible to do:
> 
> using msvc : 7.0 : "c:/.../vc/bin/cl.exe" ;
> using ow : 1.3 : "c:/watcom/binnt/cl.exe" ;
> using dm : 8.4 : "c:/dm/bin/cl.exe" ;
> 
> where ow and dm are defined something like (pseudocode):
> 
> # ow.jam
> 
> import msvc ; # bring in the msvc toolset
> 
> msvc.adapter : ow : 6.0 ; # treat the ow toolset as a msvc-6.0 clone.
> # tell msvc where the environment configuration is relative to cl.exe
> msvc.setup : ow : "../setvars.bat" ;
> 
> # --end ow.jam
> 
> I don't know how easy this would be to implement. The alternative would
> be to duplicate the msvc.jam configuration and adapt it for OpenWatcom
> and DigitalMars compilers.

I think the right solution would work like this:

# ow.jam

toolset.inherit ow : msvc ;

rule init ( version : command * )
{
   #
   #  The following is needed for all toolsets anyway.
   #   
   local condition = [ common.check-init-parameters cw : 
        version $(version) ] ;

    # If version is specified, we try to search first in default paths,
    # and only then in PATH.
    command = [ common.get-invocation-command msvc : cl.exe : $(command)
      : [ default-paths $(version) ] : $(version) ] ;
    
    common.handle-options msvc : $(condition) : $(command) : $(options) ;
    #
    # The following is a msvc-specific logic for detecting setup script
    #
 if $(command)
    {        
        command = [ common.get-absolute-tool-path $(command[-1]) ] ;
    }
    local root = $(command:D) ;
                  
    setup = $(root)\\bin\\$(setup) ;
    
    # CONSIDER: What's the point of 'call'. Can we invoke the script
directly?
    setup = "call \""$(setup)"\" > nul " ;
    
    if [ os.name ] = NT
    {
        setup = $(setup)"
" ;
    }
    else
    {
        setup = "cmd /S /C "$(setup)" \"&&\" " ;
    }

    # prefix with setup, or quoted path if any
    local prefix = $(setup) ;
    
    flags ow.compile .CC $(condition) : $(prefix)$(compiler) ;
    flags ow.compile .RC $(condition) : $(prefix)$(resource-compiler) ;
    flags ow.link .LD $(condition) : $(prefix)$(linker) ;
    flags ow.archive .LD $(condition) : $(prefix)$(linker) ;
}

Now, the part of locate script is just a copy paste, so it would be
reasonable to factor it out into some function in the msvc module, and just
call it from ow.jam.

- Volodya