Cookbook Recipes

From: Alan Gutierrez (alan-jamboost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-30 13:42:25

 Sheila

I'm not working on Boost.Build this week, sorry. Probably over
the weekend, and when I do, I'll be pursing the following tasks.

~ Create a top level rule.

I need to create a "bundle" rule for OS X. It is basically a
series of mkdir and cp calls.

~ Reference the output of another tope level rule.

I need to find the path to the exe generated so I can copy
it into my "bundle".

If the exe is an a directory:

osx/static/release/gui/tetris (Don't know conventions)

I'd need to create:

osx/static/release/gui/Tetris.app/Contents/MacOS/tetris
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Need to figure out how to get that from:

bundle Tetris : src//tetris ;

~ Create a sub project.

I know how to to this now. Clear and clever.

~ Add an output, er, directory level? grist switch? platform directory?

The current Boost.Build system has a concept of a bit of
user-interface (er, grist?) that maps like:

osx/bin/darwin/link-static/release/user-interface-gui/libfoo

Not going to cut it. I'm looking at Linux/GTK, Linux/X11,
Linux/curses, for example, not Linux/GUI. I need to be able
to generate directories like so:

OS X

bin/darwin/link-static/release/ui-carbon/libfoo

Linux 

bin/gcc/link-static/release/ui-gtk/libfoo
bin/gcc/link-static/release/ui-x11/libfoo
bin/gcc/link-static/release/ui-curses/libfoo

Win32 for Win32 (Shared with cross compilers)

bin/msvc/link-static/release/ui-gdi/libfoo
bin/msvc/link-static/release/ui-open-gl/libfoo
bin/gcc/link-static/release/ui-gdi/libfoo
bin/gcc/link-static/release/ui-open-gl/libfoo

Win32 Cross-Compile (Same tree, different gcc's)

bin/gcc/link-static/release/ui-palmos/libfoo
bin/gcc/link-static/release/ui-symbian-nokia-1.2/libfoo
bin/gcc/link-static/release/ui-symbian-nokia-2.0/libfoo
bin/gcc/link-static/release/ui-symbian-nokia-2.1/libfoo
bin/gcc/link-static/release/ui-symbian-nokia-2.6/libfoo

~ Compile headers out of line.

For debugging development, I want to compile my inline
functions, out-of-line, in an file that contains functions
that are included and compiled inline for release.

~ Specify compile configuration.

I need to be told where to find certian libraries that may
not be in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or ddl search path.

The site-config.jam file is the right way to do this. I
probably know how to write one by now.

Cheers.

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Alan Gutierrez - alan_at_[hidden]