Re: [jamboost] Re: [BBv2] A new MS Platform SDK/StdLib selection method

From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-14 16:43:04

Alexey Pakhunov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> See my comments below.
> 
> Andrey Melnikov wrote:
> 
> In fact instead of:
> 
> lib a : a.cpp /win32//user32 ;
> 
> we may use project name only:
> 
> lib a : a.cpp /win32 ;
> 
> As result all libraries will be included to the command line. We can use 
> this for header-only SDKs. We can define some kind of zero-library 
> target for this purpose and use it instead of "lib xxx ;" in the project.

AFAIK there is /boost//headers for the header-only Boost libraries. We 
can recommend 'headers' target name for general usage. BTW, Boost itself 
is an SDK.

>>How should we specify different Platform SDK 
>>configurations? Should we use features or projects?
> 
> 
> Can one module (win32.jam) define several projects? 

At the moment it can't :(

> If the answer is 
> 'yes' than we can define 'win32-builtin', 'win32-external', etc 
> projects. 'builtin' and 'external' will be different configurations 
> configured via 'toolset.usage'. BTW we still need a way to pass PSDK
> path to win32.jam.

Multiple projects won't help. See the list of configuration requirements 
in my answer to Vladimir.

> 
>>At the moment I have to specify 174 lines like
>>
>>lib user32 ;
>>lib kernel32 ;
>>....
> 
> 
> I think GLOB plus filtering out libcXX.lib will work.

The CRT isn't there in case of built-in SDK so I didn't filter.

Andrey