Re: [boost] Compiling with Clang 3.7.0 from windows

Subject: Re: [boost] Compiling with Clang 3.7.0 from windows
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-08 21:13:20

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On 9/8/2015 9:02 AM, Tom Kent wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I can not document on Github Wiki, trac, and on this mailing list what
>>> needs to be done. I will gladly discuss what I know here.
>>>
>>>
>>> What does your bjam user-config.jam file look like for this?
>>
>
> I have separate user-config.jam files for each toolset, one of which gets
> symbolically linked to user-config.jam depending on which toolset I am
> using. This is necessary because Boost build wants to invoke every toolset
> in user-config.jam even when a b2 command line specifies only a single
> toolset to use. I already complained about this on the Boost build mailing
> list but evidently the change in Boost build will not happen.
>
>
>> What do you have in your batch file for setup?
>>
>
> The batch file sets the PATH and the user-config.jam for whichever toolset
> is being invoked. Then b2 is invoked with a particular toolset.
>
> This setup is the only way I can work with multiple versions of
> mingw(-64)/gcc and multiple versions of clang.
>
>
Do you think you could post the contents of these files? I'd really like to
see what you did to setup the toolsets in the (various) user-config.jam
files. The batch file sounds more self explanatory, but would still be nice
to see.

Thanks,
Tom