Re: [Boost-build] toolset requirement

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] toolset requirement
From: Juergen Hunold (juergen.hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-06 03:50:17

Hi Deane !

On Saturday 06 December 2008 07:21:20 Deane Yang wrote:
> Should it be possible in a Jamfile to do something like this:
>
> project
>
>    : requirements
>
>      <os>NT:<toolset>gcc
>    ;

I'm not sure. I'd prefer

<target-os>windows:<toolset>gcc

instead. This works for cross-compilation, too.

> In other words, force the use of gcc when building on Windows.

Interesting idea.

> I tried this, but got a message saying that this was an invalid value
> for toolset and the only valid value was msvc. What could cause this?

You have to configure gcc on windows. Auto-detection only enables msvc on this 
platform. If gcc is in your PATH, simply adding "using gcc ;" to your using-
config.jam should do the trick. 

Yours,

Jürgen
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