Re: [Boost-build] Msvc8 + bjam

From: Reece Dunn (msclrhd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-25 06:10:45

Sohail Somani wrote:
> > [mailto:boost-build-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of 
> > Phillip Seaver
> > Sohail Somani wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Boost.Build V2 (Milestone 10)
> > > Boost.Jam 03.1.12
> > >
> > > If you do a single threaded build with msvc8, you will get messages
> > > like:
> > >
> > > cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '/ML'
> > >
> > > The reason is that Microsoft doesn't support the single threaded
> > > statically linked CRT anymore.
> > 
> > I would think it would be a bad idea to compile everything else as 
> > single-threaded and link against the multi-threaded CRT.  It 
> > sounds like 
> > <threading>single should fail to compile for msvc8.
> 
> Anyway, if your code is single threaded, its no biggie to link to the
> multithreaded library. After all, all this really means is that the
> library is threadsafe.

Okay. I have committed a fix that I have verified does the correct
thing -- adding /MT[d] for msvc-8.0 and above, while adding /ML[d]
for msvc-7.1 and below when passing runtime-link=static
threading=single to the build system.

- Reece
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