Re: Re: Milestone 3, preview 2

From: Andre Hentz (gclbb-jamboost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-20 12:42:46

On Tue, 20 May 2003, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Andre,
>
> > On to a more important problem. One of my projects use a Windows
> > Resource file and I had written a rc.jam that used to work and does not
> > anymore. It looks like this:
> >
> > .....
> >
> > generators.register-standard rc.resource-compile : RC : OBJ ;
> > #### end of (trimmed) rc.jam
>
> I've reproduced this. This should will work if you change the line to
> generators.register-standard rc.resource-compile : RC : OBJ : <toolset> ;
>
> This is a bug in Boost.Build: we're trying to use compilers to create OBJ,
> which fails, but we also never consider OBJ->RC generator. We'd need to
> fix this, but if a workaround above works for you, I'll go ahead with release.
>

Thanks Volodya. Works nicely.

Best,

Andre Hentz