build failure

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-21 10:16:14

I tried to build jam/bjam with the following command line:

nmake -f builds\win32-visualc.mk

But got the error below. What am I doing wrong?

Also, is this the preferred way to build bjam on a Win32 system?

--Beman

cl /nologo /Fejam0 -DNT 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 filesys.c builtins.c 
pwd.c kernel32.lib
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
Generating Code...
Compiling...
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
filesys.c
builtins.c
pwd.c
Generating Code...
attrib -r jambase.c
jam0
C:\boost\site\tools\build\msvc-tools.jam:156: in Cc-action
*** argument error
* rule vc-set-pdb-file ( targets + : name )
* called with: ( : vc70 )
* missing argument targets
C:\boost\site\tools\build\msvc-tools.jam:120:see definition of rule 
'vc-set-pdb-file' being called
C:\boost\site\tools\build\allyourbase.jam:613: in Cc
C:\boost\site\tools\build\allyourbase.jam:1088: in Object
C:\boost\site\tools\build\allyourbase.jam:1156: in Objects
C:\boost\site\tools\build\allyourbase.jam:919: in Main
Jamfile:128: in load-jamfiles
C:\boost\site\tools\build\bootstrap.jam:15: in boost-build
C:\boost\site\boost-build.jam:17: in module scope
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'jam0' : return code '0x1'
Stop.