Re: [Boost-build] Microsoft Platform SDK

From: Reece Dunn (msclrhd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-09 15:44:42

Jared W. Robinson wrote:
>I'd like to have BBv2 use the MS Platform SDK include and lib directories 
>automatically. As far as I can tell, there's no way to query the Platform 
>SDK location from the registry.
>
>Any ideas on how to make something like this work without hard-coding the 
>paths into Jamfiles?

If you look in the BBv2 mailing list archives, either Alexey Pakunov or 
Andre Melnikov (can't remember which) provided some logic to add this 
support. That stuff also contains things like midl support that has been 
added in.

Essentially, this boils down to calling setenv.bat from the Platform SDK 
directory to set the various directory values. It is a little more 
complicated than that.

If you can wait, it is coming :), however, if you need it sooner, you can 
try integrating the changes into the BBv2 CVS on your local machine. Several 
things have changed since then, so you will need to do some work to make it 
do what you want.

HTH,
- Reece