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From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-11 09:42:18


Tim Slattery wrote:
> Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Tim Slattery wrote:
>>
>>> bjam "sTools=msvc" install
>> That should be:
>>
>> bjam "-sTOOLS=msvc" install
>
> Thanks. I looked over the "Getting started" page earlier today and saw
> that. So I submitted this:
>
> bjam "-sTools=msvc" install --prefix=d:\Boost > result.txt 2<&1
[...]
> The result was the same. I get lots of sets of lines like this:
> vc-C++
> bin\boost\libs\date_time\build\boost_date_time.dll\vc-7_1\release
> vc-C++ \threading-multi\date_generators.obj
[...]
> It looks to me like the command line doesn't even use the arguments
> that the error message complains about.

That would be because your second try is still different than what I
pointed out. The argument has to be "-sTOOLS=msvc", i.e. case matters. I
know it's not intuitive, it's why we don't use that syntax in BBv2 :-)

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