[boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-26 14:31:57

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> That aside, FWIW I've found bjam relatively painless to use (once it's 
> present). I didn't even need to specify an -sTOOLS option or run 
> vcvars32.bat IIRC. For the scenario where one already has the headers up and 
> running but doesn't want to "bjam install" the whole package, the main 
> obstacle is figuring out which -sBUILD combination generates 
> "library-sgd-mt-whatever" when autolinking kicks in.
>
> Or can bjam figure these out automatically from the target name of 
> "library-sgd-mt-whatever.lib"? It didn't occur to me to try it. ;-) 

No, it can't.  The presumption is that -SBUILD="..." specifications
are higher level than sgd-mt-whatever abbreviated tag strings.  Of
course, -sBUILD is still pretty awful in v1.  In v2 you just write,
e.g.

      bjam threading=multi link=static <library-name>

if you want to build a library with specific options.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com