prebuilt libraries

From: Mikhail Glushenkov (bbman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-05 05:17:39

Hello,

In my project, I use a lot of prebuilt libraries 
and also compile it with three different
compilers, so I end up with something like this 
in my thirdparty_libs/Jamfile:

lib ogg : : <file>./lib/msvc-7.1/liboggD.lib 
<variant>debug <toolset>msvc 
<toolset-msvc:version>7.1 ;
lib ogg : : <file>./lib/msvc-7.1/libogg.lib 
<variant>release <toolset>msvc 
<toolset-msvc:version>7.1 ;
lib ogg : : <file>./lib/msvc-6.0/liboggD.lib 
<variant>debug <toolset>msvc 
<toolset-msvc:version>6.0 ;
lib ogg : : <file>./lib/msvc-6.0/libogg.lib 
<variant>release <toolset>msvc 
<toolset-msvc:version>6.0 ;
lib ogg : : <file>./lib/gcc-3.4/liboggD.a 
<variant>debug <toolset>gcc ;
lib ogg : : <file>./lib/gcc-3.4/libogg.a 
<variant>release <toolset>gcc ;
[and so on and so on...]

And if you throw in various standard library and 
threading types it becomes even worse.

It would be great if I could write something 
like this:

lib ogg : : 
<file>./lib/$(toolset)/libogg$(variant)$(runtime)$(threading).$(lib-file-extension)

where $(lib-file-extension) is .a for gcc and 
.lib otherwise.

It's also not very cool that you have to write 
<toolset>msvc <toolset-msvc:version>6.0 instead 
of just <toolset>msvc-6.0.