Re: Ultranewbie: boost build gives over 500 errors in msvc7?

From: stusch137 (stusch_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-13 22:17:29

--- In jamboost_at_[hidden], Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_r...> 
wrote:
>
> stusch137 wrote:
> 
> > First, I don't know how to change 
> > PATH anymore. The old AUTOEXEC.BAT and suchlike files seem to 
be 
> > gone.
> 
> Sorry is there a question on that? It's not really a Boost 
question.

The Boost "Getting Started" pages referred me to this newsgroup for 
any comments or questions about the build or install process. The 
build notes ask me to move bjam.exe to somewhere where it is 
accessible by PATH. I didn't have any good place to put it that 
wouldn't be wiped out by updating an unrelated software system. I 
guessed that there weren't any other hidden uses of PATH and used 
the explicit form of call. In less-well-designed systems than bjam 
this can cause subtle problems. I suspect that I have to use 
regedit to set PATH in Windows XP. Not for the fumble-fingered or 
faint of heart. Anyway, what I did seemed to work fine.

> 
> > I have a folder C:\Boost that contains both bjam.exe and the 
> > folder boost_1_33_0. I typed the following lines into a command 
> > prompt window:
> > 
> > chdir c:\Boost\boost_1_33_0
> > c:\Boost\bjam "-sTools=vc7" install
> 
> That should be:
> 
> c:\Boost\bjam "-sTOOLS=vc7" install
> 
> Please note that bjam is _case sensitive_.

To paraphrase my favorite nuclear plant operator, Dohh... Yep, that 
fixed it. One tiny suggestion for your ToDo list: have bjam notice 
when a "-sXXX" field is not recognized. If you are using this for 
passthrough name changes this might not be possible. Just something 
to think about.

> 
> > 2. Is there some easy way to tell if the installation is 
complete?
> 
> Easiest way is to run bjam again. If it doesn't do anything it's 
complete. If 
> it's not it will try and build anything it first failed to build 
again.

Nice to know. That is how such a tool should work.

I now have 42 errors, most relating to the need for spirit 1.6x. 
bjam gives nice error messages about that and I have downloaded 
spirit-only-1.6.3.zip. Where do I need to put it so bjam can find 
it?

Thanks for your help!

Stu Schaffner