Re: [Boost-build] The future of B2?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] The future of B2?
From: Dominique Devienne (ddevienne_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-09-28 04:19:36

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:19 PM, <aaron_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> > I want to be able to launch my IDE of choice and be able to
> > build, debug, analyze, deploy, etc with b2 as my build system.
> > And to do that without the need to look at a command line.
>
> This is probably the biggest feature request from all of our
> 400+ developers.
>
"IDE [...] build [...] with b2".

It's not clear to me whether Rene's and your point is about using b2
*within* the IDE,
or using b2 to generate a b2-independent IDE-specific project/config. Or a
mix, like CMake.

With Visual Studio as an example, does that create a "Makefile
project"-like config such
that F7 uses b2 instead instead of the "native" VS/MSBuild? What actually
matters to me
is CTRL-F7 to compile a single TU w/o having to build or link the
project/everything,
and if I recall correctly, Makefile projects don't allow that. --DD