Re: [Boost-build] Compiling multiple source files

From: Phillip Seaver (phil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-06 11:50:11

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Phillip Seaver wrote:
>   
>> There was some discussion a while ago about compiling multiple source
>> files with one compiler invocation --
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/11177/focus=11200
>>
>> Has anyone looked at that?  I know that for some of my libraries and
>> executables, I'd get a substantial speed increase over separate calls. 
>> I'd like to do it myself, but I haven't had time to dig into boost-build
>> to really understand how it works. 
>>     
>
> There is a basic issue with some compilers, msvc at least, that prevents 
> using such a feature... They don't have a way of specifying where the 
> object output (some neither globally nor individually) goes and hence 
> you end up with a bunch of .obj files in whatever directory you happen 
> to compile from.
>   

This doesn't work? 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/11177/focus=11200

>From later in the same thread:

> /Fo "SomeDir" works fine but SomeDir  string should end with  '/'  or
> '\' to specify directory 

Phillip