Re: [Boost-build] building boost in cygwin using msvc

From: Mat Marcus (mat-lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-25 12:04:06

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Andrej van der Zee <mavdzee_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build Boost in Cygwin, but with toolset
> msvc. What is the right way to do this? I tried the
> following sequence:
>
> 1) build bjam using build.sh in tools/jam/src
> 2) 'configure --with-toolset=msvc'
> (tools/jam/src/bin.cygwinx86/bjam is being used)
> 3) run 'make'
>
> The problem is that for boost_thread the Posix threads
> library is being used instead of the native Windows
> threads.
>
> This is not what I want. I want the comfort of Linux,
> that is why I am using cygwin, but I want to build
> everything natively on Windows, so no Posix threads.
>
> I also tried to build bjam using build.bat in
> tools/jam/src and then run configure (then
> tools/jam/src/bin.ntx86/bjam is being used) and make,
> but then I run into other problems (related to
> differences of directories between cygwin and Windows,
> it seems).
>
> What is the right way to do this?
>
> Cheers,
> Andrej
>

The right way is to fix threads so as not to be shell dependent. One
workaround that was posted here some time ago was to add some lines to
your ~/user-config.jam. Mine user-config.jam is pasted below. The main
downside of this method is that you get different build paths
according to which shell you use.

### user-config.jam for use under cygwin or cmd

import toolset ;

#forward slashes seem to work under both cygwin and cmd shells
using msvc : 9.0 : "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio
9.0/VC/bin/cl.exe" ;
using msvc : 8.0 : "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/bin/cl.exe" ;

#these lines needed to use threads with msvc under cygwin
toolset.add-requirements
  <toolset>msvc:<target-os>windows
  <toolset>msvc:<threadapi>win32 ;

using gcc : 4.3.0 : /opt/gcc-4.3.0/bin/g++.exe ;
using gcc : 4.2.0 : /opt/gcc-4.2.0/bin/g++.exe ;
using gcc : svn   : /opt/conceptgcc-svn/bin/conceptg++.exe ;
using gcc : 3.4.4 : /bin/g++.exe ;

toolset.add-requirements
  <toolset>gcc:<target-os>cygwin
  <toolset>gcc:<threadapi>pthread ;

###

Hope this helps,
Mat