Re: [boost] Developing a (nearly new) library possibly to be proposed for Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] Developing a (nearly new) library possibly to be proposed for Boost
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-21 20:16:52

On 2/21/2014 1:35 PM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Steven Watanabe
>> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 3:29 PM
>> To: boost_at_[hidden]
>> Subject: Re: [boost] Developing a (nearly new) library possibly to be proposed for Boost
>>
>> AMDG
>>
>> On 02/20/2014 10:16 AM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> I:\modular-boost>b2 --reconfigure
>>>> Building the Boost C++ Libraries.
>>>> Performing configuration checks
>>>>      - symlinks supported       : yes  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<  looks promising!
>>>> [  ]
>>> And was successful, and works OK every time,
>>>
>>> But I can't get it to work on another machine.
>>>
>>> I've checked that the links.jam contains the new symlinks code.
>>>
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>> Details please.
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>> a) Can you use mklink /D to create a symlink directly.
>> b) What is the b2 output?
>> c) How exactly does it fail?  Does it think that it   can't create symlinks?
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> Doh! Schoolboy error :-(
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> To get symlinks, everything one does *must* have admin privileges.
>
> I was clicking on the wrong icon to get a command DOSBOX  :-(
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> To avoid potential confusion, I have now changed the admin one so that it is a different color :-)
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> Thanks as usual.
>
> Paul
>
> PS Other may find is help to know that I have also (after a bit of time with my favourite search
> engine),
> for added convenience, edited the cmd.exe shortcut to that the Target: field is changed from just
>
> C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
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> to
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> C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /K "i:  & cd .\modular-boost\"
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> This changes partition from c: to I; and then cd to modular-boost.
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> If one is working a particular library, say math, then adding \your-favorite-library might be good
> too?
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> For example:
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> C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /K "i:  & cd .\modular-boost\math"
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> If you just use c:\modular-boost, say, then it would be just
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> C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /K "cd .\modular-boost\"
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> HTH - but other tips and tricks welcome.

You can always change the "Start in:" box to set a starting directory 
for a command prompt in Windows.