Re: [Boost-build] Intel 9.0 on windows

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-14 13:13:17

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 July 2007 19:42:28 John Maddock wrote:
>> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>> There's very old issue:
>>>
>>> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/418
>>>
>>> asking for support of Intel 9.0 on windows. I suspect we
>>> already support it, but can somebody confirm that?
>>
>> I regularly use Intel 9.1 and 10.0 with bjam, so yes it works
>> already.
>
> Excellent.
>
>> I'm not sure about what happens if you don't configure the toolset in
>> user-config.jam though: do we have auto-configuration if the user
>> just wants to use --toolset=intel at installation time?
>
> The auto-configuration will trigger for all toolsets, but it's not
> always performs ideally. In case of intel-win, you are required to
> have 'icc.exe' in
> your PATH, the standard locations, whatever that might be, are not
> searched.

Hmm, I just tried this and it didn't work: the command line invoked didn't 
contain the compiler at all!  This leads to a few douzen message boxes 
opening up complaining that cmd.exe doesn't know what program to use you 
open a ".rsp" file :-(

I suspect there is some macro that needs to be defined somewhere?

> If you know the standard locations to search in, or registry keys
> to consult, and can test any future auto-detection code, feel free to
> create issue at http://zigzag.cs.msu.su/boost.build

Will do.

John.