Re: [Boost-build] Bjam newbie - questions.

From: Claudio Pacciarini (clau3107_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-17 01:34:41

Hi Vladimir,

Thanks for your email and sorry for this late response.

I got frustrated with my lack of progress and understanding on bjam that I 
temporarily gave up.

It's a wonderful project but I couldn't solve certain things and gave up and 
I don’t have much time to loose.

Just in case you are curious about, I’ was trying to build a very simple 
project, like a hello world program, but composed of the main program, a 
static lib, a dynamic lib and a unit test.

The idea was to build everything using bjam2, using boost test for the unit 
testing. The build should be Windows and Linux compatible, passing certain 
compiler and linker flags depending on the platform.

I couldn't get this to work on Windows and Linux, with the same set of jam 
files. I've tried everything and I was stuck for days until I finally gave 
up.

I'm attaching the project files here, just in case you or someone else want 
to take a look and make it work. Having this solved will help me and perhaps 
many more adopt bjam, as doing what I’ve trying exercises and solves most 
common build operations.

Thanks,

Claudio

PS: for the WIndows compiler, I want to pass:

# For windows:

export CXXFLAGS = /nologo /EHsc /GR /Za /W4 /Wp64 /WX /Zc:forScope 
/Zc:wchar_t /Od /Ob0 /Z7 /RTC1 /GS /GF # (Debug)
# export CXXFLAGS = /nologo /EHsc /GR /Za /W4 /Wp64 /WX /Zc:forScope 
/Zc:wchar_t -O2 -Ob1 /GS /GF # (Release)

# For Linux:

# export CXXFLAGS = Wall -Werror -ansi -pedantic-errors -O0 -fnoinline 
-Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Weffc++ # (Debug)
# export CXXFLAGS = Wall -Werror -ansi -pedantic-errors -O3  
-finline-functions -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Weffc++ # (Release)

>From: Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]>
>Reply-To: "Boost.Build developer's and user's 
>list"<boost-build_at_[hidden]>
>To: "Boost.Build developer's and user's list" <boost-build_at_[hidden]>
>Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Bjam newbie - questions.
>Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:22:50 +0300
>
>Hi Claudio,
>
> > First at all, thanks for so much for your responses, your help was
> > absolutely invaluable and enlightening. Very appreciated. With your
> > comments I was able to get the job done, at last! It was pretty 
>depressing
> > being stuck at this without a clue.
> >
> > Volodya, just one tiny, not critical question, regarding this code 
>snippet:
> > >    # Get all child Jamfiles
> > >    local sub = [ glob */Jamfile ] ;
> > >    # Strip filenames, getting just directories;
> > >    sub = $(sub:D) ;
> > >    for local s in $(sub)
> > >    {
> > >		build-project $(s) ;
> > >    }
> >
> > Do I just put that code inside test's Jamfile and that's it? Do I have 
>to
> > import something or put anything else?
> > With this code, I'm getting this error:
> >
> > 	C:/dev/boost/tools/build/v2/util\path.jam:162: in path.join from module
> > path
> > 	error: only first element may be rooted
>
>Sorry, it seems like there's a bug in current code. I've fixed this, and
>tested with the following Jamroot (copy-paste of actual working example):
>
>    local sub = [ glob */Jamfile ] ;
>    sub = $(sub:D) ;
>    for local s in $(sub)
>    {
>       build-project $(s) ;
>    }
>
>Can you update to CVS HEAD and try again?
>
>- Volodya
>
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