Re: [jamboost] Interesting experiences with new Jam bootstrapping system

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-19 22:48:23

[2002-11-19] David Abrahams wrote:

We'll I'm glad your testing this ;-)

>First, for all you Windows NT people out there, go to the jam_src
>directory and type
>
> build
>
>instead of
>
> build.bat
>
>For a very `interesting' experience ;-)

Very, indeed ;-\ And that would be because it would run the "build.com", the
old VMS script. When we have a new one of those it will be named "build.vms"
instead to remove the confusion.

>Secondly:
>
>C:\boost\tools\build\jam_src>build.bat --debug
>Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET tools.
>(If you also have Visual C++ 6.0 installed and wish to use its tools
>from the command line, run vcvars32.bat for Visual C++ 6.0.)
>###
>### Using 'vc7' toolset.
>###

Well I'm glad that part works :-)

>C:\boost\tools\build\jam_src>rd /S /Q bootstrap.vc7
>
>C:\boost\tools\build\jam_src>md bootstrap.vc7
>
>C:\boost\tools\build\jam_src>"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 
>.NET\VC7\bin\cl.exe
>" /nologo /GZ /Zi /MLd -DNT -DYYDEBUG "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio 
>.NET\VC7\l
>ib\kernel32.lib" /Febootstrap.vc7\jam0 command.c compile.c execnt.c
execunix.c 
>execvms.c
>expand.c filent.c fileos2.c fileunix.c filevms.c glob.c hash.c hdrmacro.c
headers.c 
>jam.c
>jambase.c jamgram.c lists.c make.c make1.c newstr.c option.c parse.c
pathunix.c 
>pathvms.c
>regexp.c rules.c scan.c search.c subst.c timestamp.c variable.c modules.c
strings.c 
>filesy
>s.c builtins.c pwd.c

Long command but within NT command limits... OK so far...

[snip]
>Generating Code...
>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual 
>Stud
>io .NET\VC7\lib\kernel32.lib'

Hmm, where is the kernel32.lib ? Does it live in a separate place than in
MSVC6?

[snip]
Not sure what actually happened after this, so no comments.

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