Re: [Boost-build] Modifying output names for exe targets

From: Dirk Griffioen (dirk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-30 13:21:17

Hi Phillip,

I read the post differently

exe myExe : myExe.cpp : <name>fooBar.exe ;

would mean to me 'build an exe with the name myExe, but on install, 
rename it to fooBar.exe'

but I might have read into it, since that was my problem - hence my 
answer ...

the

<tag>@apago_tag

way would add to a target, I would like strip as in change the target 
name on installation

Would it be possible to change the name of a target on installation?

Regards, Dirk

Phillip Seaver wrote:
> Greg Landrum wrote, on 10/26/2007 12:01 AM:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm considering moving a project I maintain from make to boost.build
>> and have encountered what seems like a relatively simple problem: I'd
>> like to be able to specify the name of the files created by exe rules.
>>
>> For example, I'd like to be able to do something like:
>>    exe myExe : myExe.cpp : <name>fooBar.exe ;
>> and be sure that the output file from this rule is name fooBar.exe, no
>> matter what system I'm on or what type of build I'm doing.
>> Then when I do a rule like:
>>   install testExecs : myExe ;
>> I will end up, again regardless of system or build type, with the
>> file: testExecs/fooBar.exe
>>
>> Is this possible?
>>
>> thanks,
>> -greg
>>     
>
> Well, you could do:
>
>    exe fooBar : myExe.cpp ;
>
> ...and that would get you fooBar.exe on Windows (at least).  The name of 
> the output file is based on the name of the target -- see 
> http://boost.org/doc/html/bbv2/advanced.html#id2120913
>
> If you really want the ".exe" extension on all platforms, you could try 
> this:
>
>    import type : change-generated-target-suffix ;
>    type.change-generated-target-suffix EXE : : exe ;
>
> You'd probably have to put it in your root jam file, though, or you 
> could modify exe.jam in your boost-build distribution to just have "type 
> EXE : exe ;".  That said, boost-build tries to go with the platform 
> naming convention, and most unix platforms don't use .exe (to the best 
> of my knowledge).
>
> Another way to handle it could be something like this:  
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/13019  On re-reading 
> the post, it's not clear that I do something like "exe foo : foo.c : 
> <tag>@apago_tag ;" to get the desired affect.  :-)
>
> As far as the install goes, the first parameter to install ("testExecs" 
> in your example) is just the name of the install target.  It doesn't 
> affect the destination or name of the files installed.  You may want 
> something like:
>
>    "install dist : fooBar : <location>testExecs ;"
>
> "install" docs:  
> http://boost.org/doc/html/bbv2/tasks.html#bbv2.tasks.installing
> <tag> feature:  http://boost.org/doc/html/bbv2/reference.html and search 
> for "tag feature" (used in the post I mention above).
>
> Phillip
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