Re: [jamboost] Re: PDB problems with MSVC 6/7

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-15 09:35:59

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From: "hugo_duncan" <hugo_duncan_at_[hidden]>
To: <jamboost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:34 AM
Subject: [jamboost] Re: PDB problems with MSVC 6/7

> --- In jamboost_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_r...> wrote:
> > Okay, that's done.
> > Note that vc7-tools.jam and intel-win32-tools.jam are both quite
simple
> > now.
>
> Thanks - works a treat. It took me a few moments to work out how to
use it though, so I thought I would just check to see if this is
correct.
>
> set VC7_ROOT to path to vc7.
> set MSVC_ROOT to path to vc6.
>
> use toolset msvc for vc6 and toolset vc7 for cv7.

right.

>
> btw : linking with vc7 gives a message, but still suceeds
> warning LNK40444: unrecognised option '/PDB:a_path_to.pdb'
>

Weird; I don't get that message.
Jason Shirk indicates we're not using the .pdbs in the best way yet.
Should change to use /Z7.

-dave