Re: [boost] Trouble building latest CVS (Intel 7.1 and VC7)

From: John Maddock (jm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-24 05:43:48

> I just checked out the latest CVS and I am having trouble building it.
> My environment is:
>
> - Windows XP
> - Intel Version 7.1, Build 20030402Z
> - Visual C++ 7.0
>
> All my environment variables are setup correctly (INCLUDE, LIB, MSVCDIR,
> INTEL_PATH, PATH). The command line I am using with bjam is:
>
> bjam -sTOOLS=intel-win32 -sINTEL_BASE_MSVC_TOOLSET=vc7
> -sPYTHON_ROOT=C:\Python
>
> Looking at the command line that bjam is executing to compile the files,
> it seems to be all right (paths to header files, the correct compiler,
etc).

> This error happens in a lot of files, besides numeric.cpp. I let it try
> to compile more 6 files before I gave up, since something is obviously
> wrong. If needed, I can post the list of files that are giving this error.
>
> Does anybody know what am I doing wrong?

It looks like the config system is assuming that wchar_t is a native type,
but that it isn't being turned on in the compiler - perhaps a boost.build
expert can jump in here....

John