[Boost-build] MSVC lib project only creates .dll but not .lib

Subject: [Boost-build] MSVC lib project only creates .dll but not .lib
From: Christoph Mayer (mayer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-11 07:12:56

Hi,

I have a boost.build project using the msvc toolset (VC8.0) under 
Windows XP. The project contains two lib and one exe project.

The main jamfile looks as follows and lies in ./ :

----------<jamfile-begin>----------
project MyProject ... ;
use-project /MyProject/MyCommon/  : MyCommon;
use-project /MyProject/MyLibrary/ : MyLibrary;
use-project /MyProject/MyGui/     : MyGui;
build-project MyGui;
----------<jamfile-end>----------

The other tree jamfiles for the two lib and one exe projects look as 
follows:

lies in ./MyCommon/
----------<jamfile-begin>----------
lib MyCommon: ...
----------<jamfile-end>----------

lies in ./MyLibrary/
----------<jamfile-begin>----------
lib MyLibrary: ../MyCommon//MyCommon
----------<jamfile-end>----------

lies in ./MyGui/
----------<jamfile-begin>----------
exe MyGui: ../MyCommon//MyCommon
            ../MyLibrary//MyLibrary
----------<jamfile-end>----------

So, all in all MyLibrary depends on MyCommon and MyGui depends on both 
MyCommon and MyLibrary.

When building the project, boost.build compiles MyCommon and creates a 
dll successfully. Furthermore, it creates a dll for MyLibrary. Then 
boost.build tries to link MyCommon into MyLibrary and fils, as there is 
no .lib file created for MyCommon.

The error is as follows:
msvc.link.dll MyCommon\bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\MyCommon.dll
msvc.link.dll MyLibrary\bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\MyLibrary.dll
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 
'MyCommon\bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\MyCommon.lib'

Am I doing somethings wrong with the project dependencies or why are no 
.lib files created?

Thanks,
Chris
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Institute of Telematics, University of Karlsruhe (TH)
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