Re: [Boost-build] New getting started guide

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-20 15:16:38

"John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Dave, these are good, I like them :-)
>
> The main thing I noticed is that you give the msvc toolset name as simply 
> "msvc", but if you build with
>
> bjam toolset=msvc
>
> then the libraries won't have the msvc version number in them and 
> auto-linking won't work :-(

Are you sure?  If so, we should fix that.  The toolset already has
code to detect the version being used.  Maybe this would assuage some
of Volodya's concern about a toolset twice, once with and once without
a version number.

> Maybe lable the toolset as "msvc-x.y" and then define valid values for x and 
> y in the text?

I'd rather make it "just work" than complicate the instructions.  I do
say that you can add an explicit version number if you choose to, but
obviously that ain't enough.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com