Re: [boost] [getting started] Windows 64-bit builds?

From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-25 12:16:09

Stephen Nuchia wrote:

> Are you saying that the difference in syntax is significant?  Is the
> line you quoted, presumably prefixed with "bjam ", supposed to be
> sufficient?

Yes. To clarify, you've originally mentioned:

        --toolset=msvc msvc/architecture=x86/address-model=64

and "--toolset=msvc" is exactly same as "toolset=msvc", so the above is:

        toolset=msvc toolset=msvc/architecture=x86/address-model=64

and it's requesting two build everything twice -- in 32-bit mode, and
64-bit mode, and given that library filenames are the same, naturally things
don't really work well.

This is yet another example how "--toolset" confuses everybody.

- Volodya