Re: [boost] Build: Trying to get Boost.Build toseemyOpenSSLonWindows

Subject: Re: [boost] Build: Trying to get Boost.Build toseemyOpenSSLonWindows
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-10-03 06:35:38

degski wrote:

> This seems very wrong to me, and the fact that this thread exists, proves 
> it. It seems to me that the environment should be taken from environment 
> set in the command shell from which bjam is run at the first invokation, 
> as that is the environment that the user has created/selected. This gives 
> maximum flexibility, ...

People often forget that Boost.Build supports building more than one 
configuration at a time.

b2 
toolset=gcc,clang,msvc-8.0,msvc-9.0,msvc-10.0,msvc-11.0,msvc-12.0,msvc-14.0

You can't set up a correct environment for this beforehand.