Re: [jamboost] Re: building bjam for regression testing with VC7.1 under cygwin

From: Ronald Garcia (garcia_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-15 15:39:57

David Abrahams wrote:

> "rgarcia1771" <garcia_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I'm running the boost regression tests under cygwin for vc7.1
>
> Very risky. vc7.1 doesn't build cygwin-compatible .so files. Think
> of Cygwin as a separate OS. Why not run the tests under the regular
> Windows command shell?
>
Well, honestly that hadn't even occurred to me ;). I wasn't aware of 
the above issue, and I am much more comfortable in a Unix-like 
environment [*]. run_tests.sh packages the entire regression testing 
process nicely and boost build seems to make compiling with msvc/vc just 
work (i.e. no fiddling with bat files). Given the differences though, I 
guess I have a little learning to do. Thanks for that little nugget of 
wisdom.

Cheers,

ron

[*] I mean that in the sense of knowledge, not religion, BTW.