Re: [Boost-build] Advice for mixed toolsets?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-04 02:52:15

On Thursday 03 April 2008 23:43:42 Eric Woodruff wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've started working on an ocaml toolset to be able to use the exe rule
> do build ocaml applications. This is fairly straightforward, except
> where there are also C source files and libraries defined by other
> projects that should be built with gcc on Linux and msvc on Windows.
> 
> I am able to say something like:
> 
> exe mlapp : [ glob *.ml ] [ glob *.c ] /libs//someclib/<toolset>gcc :
> <toolset>ocaml ;

The <toolset> feature is basically "C++ toolset". I don't know much about
ocaml -- why do you need a toolset for that? Would not, say, ml->obj generator
be sufficient?

- Volodya