Re: [jamboost] stage rule on windows problem

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-23 06:55:39

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Hi Toon,
> 
> 
>>I'm trying to build my project on windows currently, it already works on
>> multiple unix machines. I reported a problem earlier on windows and
>>again I stumble on soth. which works fine on unix. I attached a
>>super-small project called bar and I just do a bjam of bar. This gives
>>me following error:
>>
>>...found 16 targets...
>>...updating 2 targets...
>>msvc.link.dll bin\msvc\debug\libbar.dll bin\msvc\debug\libbar.lib
>>bin\msvc\debug\libbar.rsp
>>common.copy C:\bjam_test\dynamic\libbar.lib
>>The system cannot find the file specified.
>>
>> copy "bin\msvc\debug\libbar.lib" "C:\bjam_test\dynamic\libbar.lib"
> 
> 
> Sure, your bar.cpp is empty, so DLL exports no symbols, so msvc linker 
> helpfully produced no .lib file at all.
> 
> Is this "no exports" situation true for your real project?

currently yes but this is because I only recently started porting this 
piece of code and there are no dllexport directives yet. Thanks for the 
help (again!!!).