Re: [Boost-build] Difficulty configuring boost.build for MSVC 9.0

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Difficulty configuring boost.build for MSVC 9.0
From: Ian Emmons (iemmons_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-22 16:20:22

Hi Steven -- thanks for looking into this for me.

On Dec 22, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Steven Watanabe wrote:

> Ian Emmons wrote:
>> Note that all three versions of Visual Studio are installed in  
>> their default locations:
>>
>>   C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
>>   C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8
>>   C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0
>>
>> Also note that these locations are all under "C:\Program Files  
>> (x86)" because the Windows box is running 64-bit Vista.
>
> Boost.Build uses
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Setup\VC
> or
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\VisualStudio 
> \9.0\Setup\VC
> to find the installation directory of msvc 9.0.

The first key doesn't exist.  ("...\VisualStudio\9.0\Setup" does, but  
it has no VC sub-key.)  The second key does exist.  It's default value  
is null, and it has a single named value called "ProductDir", whose  
value is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\",  
which is exactly the directory where the vcvarsall.bat script is  
located.

I tried accessing this key under "Users" permissions, and I didn't  
have any trouble reading the registry value or accessing the  
vcvarsall.bat file, so this doesn't appear to be a permissions problem.

Do you have any idea what's going wrong here?  Does bjam emit any sort  
of log file that might show details of the error?

>> notice: msvc-8.0 detected, command: 'C:\Program Files  
>> (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\cl.exe'
>> notice: msvc-7.1 detected, command: 'C:\Program Files  
>> (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin\cl.exe'
>
> Somehow the autodetection isn't working.  What version of  
> Boost.Build are you using?

Sorry, I meant to include that in my last email.  The command "bjam -- 
version" reports:

Boost.Build V2 (Milestone 12)
Boost.Jam 03.1.17

(which I believe is the latest).

Thanks,

Ian