[Boost-build] Link troubles.

From: Michael Marcin (mike_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-17 04:11:53

Hello.

I have a problem building a project with BBv2 from HEAD that I can't 
figure out.

I have a Jamfile that contains:

lib zlib
        :
        [ glob ../../sdk/zlib/*.c ]
        :
        :
        :
        <include>../../sdk/zlib
        ;	
        
lib png
        :
        [ glob ../../sdk/lpng/*.c ]
        zlib
        :
        :
        :
        <include>../../sdk/lpng
        ;

If I run "bjam toolset=msvc-8.0 variant=debug png" from a DOS console 
(on Windows XP Pro).

I get:

msvc.link.dll bin\msvc-8z.0\debug\threading-multi\zlib.dll 
bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\zlib.lib
msvc.link.dll bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\png.dll 
bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\png.lib
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 
'bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\zlib.lib'

         call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 
8\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 >nul
link /NOLOGO /INCREMENTAL:NO /DLL /DEBUG /subsystem:console 
/out:"bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\png.dll" 
/IMPLIB:"bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\png.li
b"    @"bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\png.dll.rsp"
         if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 EXIT %ERRORLEVEL%
         if exist "bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\png.dll.manifest" (
             mt -nologo -manifest 
"bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\png.dll.manifest" 
"-outputresource:bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\png.dll;2"
         )

...failed msvc.link.dll bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\png.dll 
bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\png.lib...
...failed updating 2 targets...
...updated 1 target...

Looking in the bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi directory I see
zlib.dll, zlib.dll.manifest, zlib.dll.rsp, and zlib.pdb.  So it looks 
like it built the debug zlib just fine but didn't output an import library.

I think I'm missing something but I don't know what.

Thanks,

Michael Marcin