Re: [Boost-build] How to build 64-bit executables with msvc?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-04 16:17:57

On Thursday 04 October 2007 23:54:42 Mat Marcus wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. I followed your suggestion. Unfortunately, it seems to
> lead to the same outcome (dialog boxes, failure to call vcvarsall?)
> described in one of my experiments above:
> 
> >
> > I also tried adding:
> >  using msvc : 8.0amd : "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio
> > 8\\VC\\BIN\\amd64\\cl.exe" ;
> >
> > to my user config and then invoking as:
> > bjam --toolset=msvc-8.0amd address-model=64 regex
> >
> > In this case, things seem to start out ok, but instead of compilation, I
> got
> > a series of dialog boxes indicating that an attempt was being made to
> > directly execute rsp files. Presumably vcvarsall.bat is not being invoked.
> 
> Further advice would be greatly appreciated.

Okay, please try this:

        using msvc : 8.0 : "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\VC\\BIN\\cl.exe" 
                : <setup>"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\VC\\BIN\\vcvarsall.bat" 
                ;

make sure that paths are correct -- I'm not sure I got the path to the script right. If that works,
we can try figuring why original attempts failed.

- Volodya