RE: [boost] Re: VC7.1 Building...

From: Brian Carlson (Brian_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-08 12:18:08

>You might want to limit posts to plain text, whatever email format your
>using defeats the auto-original-indent capabilities for Outlook
Express.
>Also directly reply to messages that you are reading. Many use the
>gmane.org
>newsreader interface which maintains message thread integrity.

This is set to plain text, I'm using Outlook.  Hopefully this works
better.

> I don't have a vc7.1-tools.jam file.  And I have vc7.0 and vc7.1
> I've never heard of this file, and don't think there is one.

When you run bjam -sTOOLS=XXX  It takes the XXX and appends -tools.jam
to find the .jam file for building for the specific compiler.

> Your building for vc7.0, I'm not sure what the -a is.

-a is rebuild all, even if current.

>If you want to build for vc7.1 you should use vc7.1.

I did (bjam -sTOOLS=vc7.1 stage) and I get the following error:

Vc7.1-tools.jam No such file or directory.

>I would start over if I were you. Open a Command Propmpt window. Change
>directory to you boost_1_31_0 directory. Type the following _exactly_
as
>shown:
>
>    bjam -sTOOLS=vc7.1 stage

I did, but I'm using 1.29, not 1.31  That might be the problem....hmm

Thanks,
Brian