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

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-30 23:40:10

[2002-11-29] David Abrahams wrote:

>Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> [2002-11-20] David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>>>Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hmm, where is the kernel32.lib ? Does it live in a separate place than
in
>>>> MSVC6?
>>>
>>>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Vc7\PlatformSDK\lib
>>>
>>>The evil PlatformSDK strikes again!
>>
>> Oh that dreaded PSDK :-(
>>
>> I did some changes which hopefully takes care of this problem
>> <cross-fingers>. Could you give it a try, see if it works now?
>
>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '\lib\kernel32.lib'
>
>:(

OK. I'm 90% sure I fixed it this time ;-) I added /LIBPATH to make it look
for the library.

>> And as you may have noticed I wrote a replacement for the shell script
>> "yyacc" in C. So it should now be possible to build the grammar in
>> Windows(and others)... as long as you happen to have a yacc or bison
around.
>
>I noticed! It's neat, but I'm a little unsure that it's worth the
>investment. It means that we're forked from the Jam sources on yet
>another dimension, and I figure that the few people who really need to
>rebuild the grammar on Windows can get Cygwin. However, I don't think
>it does much harm, so I'll (generously <wink>) reserve judgement about
>that for now.

It wasn't much of an effort. I actually did it because I got tired of doing
nothing while waiting for my compilations to finish (~10 minutes each
cycle). Sometimes one just needs a break for the normal workload.

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