Re: [jamboost] como-win32 toolset help needed

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-25 23:33:11

[2003-05-25] Beman Dawes wrote:

>The Comeau compiler under Windows has an option (--a) which we need to 
>compile most Boost tests correctly. It both increases compliance and adds 
>certain warning messages.
>
>OTOH, --a cannot be used to compiler certain Windows SDK headers such as 
>winnt.h. There are a few Boost files which use these problem headers.
>
>What is the best way to setup the como-win32 toolset to default to --a, but 
>allow --a to be turned off for certain compiles?
>
>Thanks,
>
>--Beman
>
>PS: I've been back and forth with Greg Comeau about --a, and he may someday 
>get it to accept Windows headers with warnings rather than errors, but that 
>isn't going to happen right away.

Well the best way would be to have a #pragma to turn off the --a before
including the winnt.h header. But I guess that's not going to happen either
;-)

As for the toolset, the answer depends on the granularity you want...

If you need control on a per target basis (lib/dll/exe) then it's as easy as
adding a feature to map the flag onto. This is what I just did to the
darwin-tools.jam, and added a <warnings>on/off feature.

But if you need control on a per file basis then the naswer is complicated,
because it's not really supported by BBv1. But a hack that will work is to
declare a free-feature to specify files which should have warnings disabled,
and check as each file is compiled to add, or not, the --a flag. And to make
it easy for you.. attached is a patch to the current como-win32-tools.jam
which does that ;-) With it you can specify <no-warn>some_file.cpp in the
requirements section which will not get the --a flag. 

Enjoy.

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