Re: [boost] compile boost 1.3.3

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-17 09:24:24

| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Rene Rivera
| Sent: 15 August 2005 02:26
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: Re: [boost] compile boost 1.3.3
| Try:
| 
| bjam -sVC71_ROOT="E:\programme\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7" 
| -sTOOLS=vc-7_1 install
| 
| Or:
| 
| bjam -sTOOLS=vc-7_1 install

I am also trying to build the test library from the new 1.33 release using
MSVC 2005 beta2. 

After too long struggling, I have, again, to beg for help :-((

I have installed bjam at c:\winnt\system32 and confirmed its presence with

I:\boost_1_33_0>bjam -v
Boost.Jam  Version 3.1.11. OS=NT.
   Copyright 1993-2002 Christopher Seiwald and Perforce Software, Inc.
   Copyright 2001 David Turner.
   Copyright 2001-2004 David Abrahams.
   Copyright 2002-2005 Rene Rivera.
   Copyright 2003-2005 Vladimir Prus.

Having failed with   I:\>bjam -h
Invalid option: -h

usage: bjam [ options ] targets...

-a      Build all targets, even if they are current.
-dx     Set the debug level to x (0-9).
-fx     Read x instead of Jambase.
-jx     Run up to x shell commands concurrently.
-n      Don't actually execute the updating actions.
-ox     Write the updating actions to file x.
-q      Quit quickly as soon as a target fails.
-sx=y   Set variable x=y, overriding environment.
-tx     Rebuild x, even if it is up-to-date.
-v      Print the version of jam and exit.
--x     Option is ignored.

And bjam -? which appears to take a long time doing nothing (I killed it).

despite discouragement from

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>bjam --help
Jamfile: No such file or directory
Jamfile: No such file or directory
...found 8 targets...

Whose meaning is unclear, except that a jamfile is missing!  What are the
'targets'?

(BTW why does -v show version and exit - why not show version and carry on
to document the bjam version used on screen or better in the log file).

My MSVC is standard location: cl.exe and lib.exe and link.exe  are at 

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin"

so I have assumed that the root is

-sMSVC_ROOT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\"

I assume I need to specify msvc as my TOOLS

 -sTOOLS=msvc

My Boost 1.33.0 is installed at

i:\boost_1_33_0

so I have CDed to it and run (to a long file, too much to view on screens
buffer)

I:\boost_1_33_0>bjam -q -sMSVC_ROOT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio 8\
VC" -sTOOLS=msvc --builddir=i:\temp --with=test --stagedir=i:\libs
--without-pyt
hon stage > i:\temp\bjam.log 

despite --with-test or -with-test_exec_monitor  (Is the 'with' name the
group or the individual? Why a - and not a =?)

I get ALL the libraries built at i:\libs, as requested.

And they have the wrong name - vc6  - a compiler I thankfully discarded some
long time ago ;-)

I get two versions, one labelled with Boost version, one not. Why?

I presume I can rename and install these lib files, but how should they be
named Right First Time?

Thanks for any elucidations.

Paul

Paul A Bristow
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