Re: [jamboost] Fwd: bjam integration in msvc

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-30 05:39:57

Toon,

> We're using bjam on a myriad of unix platforms (ibm, sgi, sun, linux, tru64)
> and it works just fine. Now developers also will use the same system on
> windows in msvc but we were wondering what kind of functionality will be lost
> (in msvc) through using bjam instead of the build-system inside the msvc ide
> ?
> 
> AFAIK the msvc build system (nmake I believe) generates a lot of extra
> information (.pdb ...) that is used inside the IDE to provide the user with a
> function-call-tree etc.
> 
> Could someone with bjam experience on windows provide me some info on how to
> use bjam on windows without (or minimally) cripling the msvc/ide ?

I'm afraid I can give no instant direct help -- I don't know how to make this in
Boost.Build V1. However, msvc transformation graph was considered during V2 design
and will be supported. I expect this can happen in two-three weeks. Of course, that
would be only a development milestone of V2, so I don't know if it will be possible
to use it in practice in your particular project.

- Volodya