I am writing jamfile for a Windows COM server project.  I followed the directions in the URL http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Boost.Build_V2/MIDL_HOWTO, and the code looks like this:

mstypelib MyCOMServerProject-tlb

                :

                                MyCOMServerProject.idl

                ;

lib MyCOMServerProject :

                                MyCOMServerProject.rc surrogate.c

                                [ glob-tree *.cpp  : .svn  units ]  :

                                <toolset>msvc:<define>_DEBUG

                                <link>shared

                                <implicit-dependency>MyCOMServerProject-tlb

                                <def-file>MyCOMServerProject.def

                                <variant>debug

                                <define>WIN32

                                <define>_WIN32_WINNT=0x0500

                                ;

After a couple of failures, the code finally worked. However, I have to call bjam twice to get it work.  The first build ended up with an error:

 MyCOMServerProject.rc(106) : error RC2135 : file not found: MyCOMServerProject-tlb.tlb

The problem is that .rc is built before .tlb, so the rc compiler complained that it could not locate .tlb file.

If I run the same command the second time, the problem did not exist because the .tlb file was generated.

Is there any workaround to this – to force that mstypbelib is called before .res file is built?

Thanks!

Sherwood