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

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-13 23:35:43

At 20:17 2005-11-13, you wrote:
>--- In jamboost_at_[hidden], Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_r...>
>wrote:
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> > stusch137 wrote:
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> > > 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.
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>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.
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> >
> > > 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_.
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>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.
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> >
> > > 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.
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>Nice to know. That is how such a tool should work.
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>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?

your best bet would be to upgrade to a modern compiler, and use modern Spirit

>Thanks for your help!
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>Stu Schaffner
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