Re: [jamboost] question about using bjam v1 in wxWidget applications.

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-31 16:27:44

jeffreyholle wrote:

> I wish to employ bjam for a wxWidgets application development.

Neat.. wxWidgets is one of the big components I build with bjam. But I 
don't use the wx-config system at all because bjam gives me more 
consistent control for building than *config scripts do. That said...

> The smooth way to get all the compiler/linker flags and stuff is using
> "wx-config".
> 
> I'd like to use something like:
> <cxxflags>$(wx-config --cppflags)
> 
> in my Jamfile. However, this doesn't work.

bjam doesn't currently have a way to execute external programs outside 
of the build actions.

> Is there a way to do this?

Taking GCC/Linux as the example you could make the build do the 
equivalent of:

g++ .. `wx-config --cppflags` ...

By adding that sub-command invocation as one of the cxxflags:

HTH.

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