Re: freely downloadable MS compiler + boost.build v1

From: Bart (bartmann_nsd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-21 19:53:49

> Help, I'm having trouble with boost.build under the freely downloadable
> microsoft C/C++ compiler.
>
> I've moved cl.exe and so on into a directory where boost can find them,
> and boost.build v1 has no problems producing .obj files. The trouble now
> is that it tries to link with msvcrt.lib.
>
> As I understand things so far, this compiler decided to call the same C
> and C++ runtime libraries libc.lib, libcmt.lib and so on. cl.exe knows
> how to turn a C++ file into an executable, but link.exe by default tries
> to link with that old name msvcrt.lib
>
> Has anybody had luck getting boost.build working with this compiler? The
> download is at
>

I was able to get it to work. I posted the details in:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/7062

Good luck,
Bart