Re: [Boost-build] error: unable to construct ./xxxx

From: Larry Evans (cppljevans_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-06 07:56:01

On 10/05/07 09:44, 김영현 wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm a novice of bjam. After I installed bjam in my linux (ubuntu 7.04) 
> box, I saw some significant error messages below.
> 
> error: unable to construct  ./hello
> error: no generators were found for type 'EXE'
> error: and the requested properties
> error: make sure you've configured the needed tools
> See 
> http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/configuration.html 
> <http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/configuration.html>
> To debug this problem, try the --debug-generators option.
> 
> Does anybody know to fix this problem??

I had the same problem and I *think* the solution was to
to make sure there was a boost-build.jam file in some
ancestor directory with contents:

BOOST_ROOT = $(.boost-build-file:D) ;
boost-build tools/build/boost-build ;

where tools/build/boost-build is the part of
downloaded BB with files:

hacking.txt
index.html
jam_src
kernel

as well as others.

If you put your Jamfile in some directory, say
my-dev, located below the directory where you downloaded boost,
I think it should work since the boost I downloaded already
had the required boost-build.jam.

HTH