Re: [Boost-users] Boost 1.34 and Visual C++ "Orcas"

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-16 12:29:32

on Tue May 15 2007, Bernhard Fischer <rep.dot.nop-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:04:56PM -0600, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>It's not your fault for following the pattern that was already there,
>>but looking at the path to identify the compiler is suboptimal at
>>best.  We should be invoking the compiler using the SHELL function and
>>asking it to tell us its version.  See gcc.jam for an example.
>
> Does gcc.jam pickup CC and CXX env variables, btw?

No.

> I think that i had trouble to use the auto guessed toolset since
> i want to use the CC and CXX and do not have gcc nor g++. I had to
> create my own cc.jam, since for --with-toolset=cc i was unable to find
> a corresponding jam file. CC and CXX both point to gcc executables of
> the form gcc-4.2-suffix resp. g++-etc
>
> How would i use these compilers to build boost?

Create a user-config.jam file in your home directory where you have

   import toolset.using ;
   using gcc : 4.2-<suffix> : <command that invokes g++-4.2-suffix> ;

which might look just like:

   import toolset.using ;
   using gcc : 4.2-mysuf : g++-4.2-mysuf ;

Then you can build with --toolset=gcc-4.2-mysuf

HTH,

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