Re: [Boost-build] boost.build v2 and toolset=

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-18 19:12:04

"Reece Dunn" <msclrhd_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Roland Schwarz wrote:
>> Sean Huang wrote:
>> > For msvc, if you are running 32-bit windows, I believe you can simply 
>> > uncomment the using msvc line. The toolset names are also changed and have 
>> > versions in it. For example, for 8.0, do bjam --v2 msvc-8.0
>> 
>> Thank you. This took me one step further.
>> 
>> Does this mean I have to configure all compilers that I have installed 
>> on my system? And then later on the commandline choose which one to use 
>> in a specific build?
>
> At the moment, yes.
>
>> using msvc : 6.0 : C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual 
>> Studio/VC98/Bin/cl.exe ;
>> 
>> using msvc : 7.1 : C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 
>> .NET2003/Vc7/bin/cl.exe ;
>
> Note that if they are in the default locations, you can just have:
>
>    using msvc : 6.0 ;
>    using msvc : 7.1 ;

Actually

     using msvc : all ;

should take care of it.

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Dave Abrahams
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