Boost logo

Boost-Build :

From: Yong C W (batsmile_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-10 00:16:29


        I am a newbie and all, but I do read the installation instructions.
I have both VS 6 and VS.NET 2003, installed in
        VS6 : C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual Studio\
        VS.NET 2003 : C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual Studio.NET\

         After unzipping the download into C:\Boost_1_33_1\, I issued from
this directory:

        bjam "-sTOOLS=vc7_1" install

This was what I got:
****************************************************************************
********************
vc7_1-tools.jam: No such file or directory

        Stuff about bzip2, zlib and gzip support being disabled ...
        Stuff about Python which I do not use ....
        ...
        ...

Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information (and if
you don't know what ICU is then you probably don't need it).
vc7_1-tools.jam: No such file or directory
C:\boost_1_33_1\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:645: in C++ rule C++-action
unknown in module
C:\boost_1_33_1\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:1142: in Object
C:\boost_1_33_1\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:1207: in Objects
C:\boost_1_33_1\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:150: in dll-files
C:\boost_1_33_1\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:1969: in subvariant-target
C:\boost_1_33_1\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:2406: in stage Jamfile:224: in
load-jamfiles
C:\boost_1_33_1\tools\build\v1\bootstrap.jam:21: in boost-build
C:\boost_1_33_1\boost-build.jam:16: in module scope
****************************************************************************
********************

        Could this be a problem with the environment variables? Some of
these are (obtained using SET):

INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual
Studio.NET\SDK\v1.1\include\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual
Studio\VC98\atl\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual
Studio\VC98\mfc\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual
Studio\VC98\include

LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual Studio.NET\SDK\v1.1\Lib\;C:\Program
Files\Microsoft\Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual
Studio\VC98\lib

MSDevDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98
MSVCDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual Studio.NET\Vc7
Path= ... ;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual
Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual
Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual
Studio\Common\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual Studio\VC98\bin
VS71COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual Studio.NET\Common7\Tools\

        Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!


Boost-Build list run by bdawes at acm.org, david.abrahams at rcn.com, gregod at cs.rpi.edu, cpdaniel at pacbell.net, john at johnmaddock.co.uk