Re: [Boost-build] building libraries for commeau.

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-05 04:41:27

On Saturday 05 July 2008 02:02:42 Robert Ramey wrote:
> I would like to run tests with the commeau compiler/vc 7.1 backend 
> combination.
> 
> Invoking the following command line:
> 
> $ bjam --toolset=como-win >bjam.log 2>&1 &
> 
> results in the following bjam.log file
> 
> warning: Graph library does not contain optional GraphML reader.
> note: to enable GraphML support, set EXPAT_INCLUDE and EXPAT_LIBPATH to the
> note: directories containing the Expat headers and libraries, respectively.
> warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library.
> note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam.
> note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-mpi" to bjam.
> note: otherwise, you can safely ignore this message.
> Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
> Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information
> (don't panic: this is a strictly optional feature).
> warn: Unable to construct 
> ../../../libs/serialization/build/boost_serialization
> warn: Unable to construct 
> ../../../libs/serialization/build/boost_serialization
> warn: Unable to construct 
> ../../../libs/serialization/build/boost_wserialization
> 
> I've verified that como.exe is accessible through the current path.
> 
> I've tried to run the serialization test suite. In this case the compiler( 
> front and backend)
> are invoked.  But the tests fail due to lack of libraries.  So I tried to 
> build directly and
> got the above.
> 
> Interested in any suggestions.

The como toolset cannot produce shared libraries, so use link=static.

(The same suggestion was present in another email which appeared in moderation
queue and which I've approved, but for some reason I don't see this email
appearing, and don't remember which address it was sent from).

- Volodya