Re: [boost] Re: Testing with various compilers [was operators.hpp ...]

From: Lois Goldthwaite (loisg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-06-19 10:47:43

>
> What command line should be used to invoke the compiler?  For example, for
> VC++ 6.0 I am using:
>
> cl /nologo /MLd /W3 /GR /GX /Zi /Od /I "\boost\site" /D "WIN32" /D "_DEBUG"
> /D "_MBCS" /D "_CONSOLE" $1$2
>

I suggest using /MD or /MDd rather than /MLd. For some programs it may not make
any difference, but for real applications /MD (use DLL run-time library) is the
only practical option. If you link against a static version of the run-time lib
with /ML or /MT, then the executable and each DLL has its own version of a
memory manager, and if you pass allocated memory across the boundaries (e.g.
returning a string by value), then the debug heap memory manager complains.
With /MD, all pieces share a common memory manager. There are ways to avoid the
problem, but it gets complicated. See article Q94248 in the MS knowledge base.

>
> Third question for each compiler is how do you tell if a compilation has
> errors?  For VC++ I am grepping the output for "error" for lack of a better
> way.

Doesn't CL.EXE send back a return code if the compilation doesn't succeed? It
used to be possible to write batch files that checked for errorlevel, IIRC.

Cheers,
Lois