Lin -- to get this behavour, I defined a PDB file type and then added it to the list of generated artifacts in the lines that register the linker and archiver in msvc.jam. By declaring it this way, it automatically gets copied with the exe by the stage / install rules.<div>
<br></div><div>One drawback is that if you build with &lt;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; white-space: pre; ">debug-store&gt;object<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal; "> then the stage rules fails because no pdb is generated. To get around this, I used a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; white-space: pre; ">$(TOUCH_FILE)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal; "> hack in the link action to generate a dummy file.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>regards</div><div>Michael</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Lin Luo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:chris.luolin@gmail.com">chris.luolin@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Lin Luo
[mailto:<a href="mailto:chris.luolin@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.luolin@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Posted At:</b> Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:29 PM<br>
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<b>Conversation:</b> Installing generated .pdb along with generated .exe<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Installing generated .pdb along with generated .exe</span></p>

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<p>Hi there,</p>

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<p>I did a brief search and didn’t seem to find an exact
answer to my question:</p>

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<p>What is the recommended way to let the install rule to
install generated .pdb file along with the generated .exe file to the same
destination directory for later packaging?</p>

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<p><span style="color:#1F497D">Say I have the directory
structure like below: (the output directories are using boost build default
settings)</span></p>

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<p><span style="color:#1F497D">+ProjectRoot</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#1F497D">                +bin</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#1F497D">                                -MyApplication.exe</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#1F497D">                +include</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#1F497D">                +src</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#1F497D">                                +bin</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#1F497D">                                                +profile</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#1F497D">                                                                +link-static</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#1F497D">                                                                                +thread-multi</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#1F497D">                                                                                                -MyApplication.exe</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#1F497D">                                                                                                -MyApplication.pdb</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>

<p><span style="color:#1F497D">By using the install rule, I am
able to install the executable (only) to the ‘bin’ directory right
below my ProjectRoot for easy packaging without worrying about all the boost
build default output directory settings for different targets
(lin-static/thread-multi/etc.), but how would I normally install the generated
.pdb file together with the .exe file to the top level bin directory without
resorting to hard code all the intermediate boost build directories?</span></p>

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<p>The Boost Build documentation for &lt;install-type&gt; and
&lt;install-dependencies&gt; don’t seem to be the proper choice, or am I
missing anything?</p>

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<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Lin</p>

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