Re: [Boost-build] msvc express toolset.

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-22 21:25:23

AMDG

Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
>   I removed the problem in my sandbox but it seems that the msvc 
> toolset has been written so that it attempts to use the 'cl.exe' 
> compiler command directly without any setup script in case it can not 
> recognize the toolset version and simply expect the external 
> environment to be already correctly set up.
>
>   My guess is that this is wrong. Why would anyone want that?

That's what I did before I learned that there was an msvc-9.0express 
toolset...

>   Would it not be better to report this as an error or possibly use 
> such plain tool executables without a setup script but only if no 
> version has been specified or auto-detected?

Fine with me as long as it's easy to figure out what the right bjam
command is from the error message.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe