Re: [Boost-build] builtin rule for assembler?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] builtin rule for assembler?
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-04 12:02:24

On Tuesday 04 November 2008 19:13:41 Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was looking for a rule that produced the assembler output? I tried 
> something like
> 
> local source = [ glob *.cpp ] ;
> for local s in $(source)
> {
>      obj $(s:B) : $(s) ;
>      exe $(s:B).exe : $(s) ;
>      asm $(s:B).asm : $(s) ;
> }
> 
> but there is apparently no asm rule.
> 
> Has anybody got a rule for this lying around?

I don't actually think gcc *can* produce asm, as such. It can produce asm *in addition* to
an object file, if "cxxflags=-save-temps" is specified. I also don't know if msvc can
produce assembler at all.

- Volodya