Re: [Boost-build] msvc on AMD64 support

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-31 11:11:44

on Sun Jul 29 2007, Vladimir Prus <ghost-AT-cs.msu.su> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>>>     using msvc : 8.0 ;
> ....
>>>> Both with and without cl in the path.
>>> ......
>>>>         command = [ common.get-invocation-command msvc : cl.exe :
>>>>         $(command)
>>>>           : [ default-paths $(version) ] : $(version) ] ;
>>>
>>>
>>> It is highly unlikely for this to return nothing if cl.exe in in PATH.
>>> Are you sure that's the case?
>> 
>> No, it's not... and why should it be?  
>
> Because in the part quoted above you've said you have tried with cl
> in the PATH. If that were the case, then 'get-invocation-command'
> is supposed to return something, which you claim it isn't. 

Well, frankly, as I said, it's been 7 months, and any untested claims I made
in the past couple of weeks are just "from memory." 

> So, I'm trying to figure if get-invocation-command is broken in
> as-yet-unknown way, or you claim that cl.exe is in PATH is wrong.

Regardless, the toolset should work whether or not cl is in the PATH.

>> The registry knows where VS is 
>> installed and IIRC our toolset tries to use that information.
>
> I'm trying to investigate your claim that get-invocation-command returns
> nothing. The fact that registry auto-detection failed to work is independent.

OK.

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