Re: Building bjam on windows?

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-24 08:50:57

David Abrahams wrote:

> Markus Schöpflin <markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>>Rene Rivera wrote:
>>
>>>[2003-03-20] Markus Schöpflin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>I tried it on NT4SP6. Can't tell you the shell version right now because 
>>>>>I'm at home and not at the office. I will have a look first thing 
>>>>>tomorow morning.
>>>>
>>>>The shell version is 4.0 (from the version tab of 
>>>>c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe).
>>>>
>>>>I just tried it with and without the command extensions but no luck.
>>>
>>>Darn :-(
>>>
>>>I've made some minor changes that might help. Could you try out the attached
>>>build.bat?
>>
>>Sorry for the delay...
>>
>>The bad news: I just tried it and it still doesn't work. The good 
>>news: It fails later...
>>
>>The command line used was ".\build.bat vc7"
>>
>>Attached is the debug output of the script.
>>
>>I'm sorry to tell you that this is my last day where I have access to 
>>WinNT 4.0 so I won't be able to test any further. Sorry about that.
>>
> 
> I'm no expert on .bat or Rene's intentions, but I guess that the
> problem is here:
> 
> 
> if "_%_known_%_" == "__" (
> call :Error_Print "Unknown toolset: %BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET%"
> )
> if errorlevel 1 goto Finish
> 
> Since the first test fails, I wouldn't be surprised if we had
> errorlevel 1 afterwards. It seems to me that we should just comment
> out line 256 (the last one above). Markus, if you do that, does
> everything work?

Nope. The script proceeds further but cl then dies with an error about 
an unknown command line option. As I don't have any more access to 
this plattform, I guess we'll just leave it as it is. :-(

Markus