[Boost-build] Missing manifest file

From: Deane Yang (deane_yang_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-30 13:15:01

I had posted a fairly incoherent message about this problem before; I'd 
like to try to post something a little clearer. If anyone can help me 
with this, I'd be really grateful.

I'm building a DLL on Windows using bjam. If I omit the <runtime-link> 
feature, it all works fine without any problems.

If I add "<runtime-link>static", then it appears that the linker 
successfully builds the DLL, as well as the .lib and .exp files, but 
does not generate a manifest file. So the subsequent call to mt.exe 
fails, because no manifest file is found. bjam then deletes the files 
generated by the linker.

I've examined the calls to the linker, and it looks to my naked eye that 
they are exactly the same, except that with the runtime-link-static set, 
  everything is down one level deeper in the directory hierarchy.

For the record, here is what bjam says it's calling (the response files 
also appear to be identical, except for the directories):

(without <runtime-link>static)
call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 >nul
link /NOLOGO /DEBUG /subsystem:console /DLL 
/out:"bin\msvc-8.0express\debug\threading-multi\aka_clean_debug.dll" 
/INCREMENTAL:NO 
/IMPLIB:"bin\msvc-8.0express\debug\threading-multi\aka_clean_debug.lib" 
  /def:source\exports.def 
@"bin\msvc-8.0express\debug\threading-multi\aka_clean_debug.dll.rsp"
     mt -nologo -manifest 
bin\msvc-8.0express\debug\threading-multi\aka_clean_debug.dll.manifest 
-outputresource:bin\msvc-8.0express\debug\threading-multi\aka_clean_debug.dll;2

(without <runtime-link>static)
   call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat" 
x86 >nul
link /NOLOGO /DEBUG /subsystem:console /DLL 
/out:"bin\msvc-8.0express\debug\runtime-link-static\threading-multi\aka_clean_debug.dll" 
/INCREMENTAL:NO 
/IMPLIB:"bin\msvc-8.0express\debug\runtime-link-static\threading-multi\aka_clean_debug.lib" 
  /def:source\exports.def 
@"bin\msvc-8.0express\debug\runtime-link-static\threading-multi\aka_clean_debug.dll.rsp"
     mt -nologo -manifest 
bin\msvc-8.0express\debug\runtime-link-static\threading-multi\aka_clean_debug.dll.manifest 
-outputresource:bin\msvc-8.0express\debug\runtime-link-static\threading-multi\aka_clean_debug.dll;2