Re: [Boost-build] target names

From: Jorge Suit Perez Ronda (josp.jorge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-23 04:56:01

Andrej van der Zee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to bjam and now I am struggling with the
> names of targets. I want to build an exe-target with a
> dot in its name ("name.ext"). For example, if I do the
> following:
>
> exe name.ext
>   : [ glob *.cpp ]
>   ;
>
> It creates an executable called "name" instead of
> "name.ext".
>
> Also, I want to build an Apache module (a shared
> library) that is called "mod_name.so". When I use
> something like this:
>
> lib mod_name
>   : [ glob *.cpp ]
>   ;
>
> It prepends "lib" to the name.
>
> Is there anyway to have more control over the target
> names? How can I fix this?
>
>   
You can use the <tag> feature

for instance, the following piece of code build the name of the shared 
module without the "lib" prefix:

import type ;

rule tag ( name : type ? : property-set )
{
    if $(type) = SHARED_LIB
    {
        local suffix = [ type.generated-target-suffix $(type)
                                                      : $(property-set) ] ;
        suffix = .$(suffix) ;
        return $(name)$(suffix:E="") ;
    }
}

lib mod_name
   : [ glob *.cpp ] : <tag>@tag
   ;

documentation for  <tag> feature can be found at:

http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/builtins/features.html

hope it helps,

best regards

Jorge

> Thanks,
>
> Andrej
>
>
>
>
>
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