Re: [jamboost] DLL building broken under Windows

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-15 01:23:07

Cower :-(

The problem should now be fixed! Get the new "boost-base.jam".

On 2002-02-14 at 06:19 PM, david.abrahams_at_[hidden] (David Abrahams) wrote:

>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Douglas Gregor" <gregod_at_[hidden]>
>> the error text). The problem seems to stem from the fact that SUFDLL has
>both
>> '.dll' and '.lib' suffixes
>
>No, that part's OK.

Well, yes and no :-\ The problem was more subtle than that.

>>, but I don't pretend to understand how DLLs work
>> under Windows. Everything works properly under Linux.
>>
>> This error is with the latest (as of ~4:00pm EST) sources from CVS.
>
>This probably has something to do with Rene's checkin as of last night. You
>could roll back the tools/build directory to its state as of 1 pm EST
>yesterday.

Yes it does :-]

>> d:\development\boost/tools/build\boost-base.jam:1533: in subvariant-target
>> *** argument error
>> * rule dll-files ( module implib ? : sources * : target-type ? )
>> * called with: ( dll-files
>
>The error message shows that the first argument to dll-files can have 1 or 2
>elements (module implib ?), and where I snipped shows at least 3 elements.

The problem was that the new name expansion was expanding target and source
names to multiple items when it got to using the SUFDLL labeling.

Sorry, about the delay, I was dealing with corporate stuff :-( Paperwork is
the bain of all existence!

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