RE: [jamboost] [bbv2] newbie : how to create a new "configuration"

From: Renaud Lepere (renaud.lepere_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-28 04:28:14

> 
> You might want to check out 
> http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl
> ?Boost.Build_V2/MicrosoftVCProjMigration 
> in the Wiki. This is still under construction and would love some 
> help/feedback on it. Note that some of the documentation in 
> there will refer 
> to the latest CVS version of BBv2.

Thanks a lot, i read it and it gave me a good vision of what to
do.

> It would be better to use <debug-symbols>on instead of using 
> the /Zi switch 
> directly. I am not sure what /fixed:no does.

/fixed:no is needed by purify/quantify, it's about relocation 
but i don't know exaclty what it is. It is a linker option.

After your advices (and reading /tools/builtin.jam), i defined 
a new variant/configuration in my jamroot

variant crazy : profile : <linkflags>/fixed:no ; 

No i can profile all my projects easily. Is there a way to say 
that variant crazy means <linkflags>/fixed:no with msvc and something 
else with another toolset (i use gcc for syntax checking) ? 

Perhaps you should add in the migration guide, how to create
new variants/configurations. It seems to be very easy. 

I also have another problem/question, if i would like to use whole 
program optimizations (cxxflags /GL and linkflags /LTGC), should i
define a new variant or is there a direct way to do it ? 

Thanks

Renaud