Re: [Boost-build] Boost build in Cygwin 1_36_0 vs 1_38_0 msvc dll build wierdness

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Boost build in Cygwin 1_36_0 vs 1_38_0 msvc dll build wierdness
From: Brian Davis (bitminer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-27 16:17:13

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> AMDG
>
> Brian Davis wrote:
>
>> I am using just about the latest version of Cygwin.  I have used it it the
>> past to build in Windows for gcc and msvc sucessfully as it allows me to
>> do
>> both simutanesously for all versions of compilers installed.  Cygwin has
>> provided a good platform for me to test these compilers in the past.  I
>> have
>> downloaded and began using 1.38.0 and have come accross some wierndess in
>> the builds of dlls between these versions where 1.36.0 works as expected
>> and
>> 1.38.0 is ... broken.
>>
>> <snip>
>> bjam -d+2 toolset=msvc
>> <snip>
>>
>> Notice the glut32.so....?  What is this?  Why is a msvc build now creating
>> a
>> .so?
>>
>>
>
> Does it work with toolset=msvc target-os=windows?
> I believe that this has been fixed in the trunk:
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/51241
>

**** Build of configuration Debug for project 3D_DSA ****

bjam -d+2 toolset=msvc os=windows
NVIDIA_SDK =
"/cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA/source/3rdParty/Win32/cuda-2.1/NVIDIA
CORPORATION/NVIDIA CUDA SDK"
PATH =
/cygdrive/e/source/3rdParty/Win32/boost/boost_1_38_0/tools/jam/stage/bin.cygwinx86
PATH = /usr/bin PATH = /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin/client PATH =
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin PATH =
/cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA/source/3rdParty/Win32/boost/boost_1_38_0/tools/jam/stage/bin.cygwinx86
PATH = /usr/local/bin PATH = /usr/X11R6/bin PATH =
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32 PATH = /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS PATH =
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem PATH = /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common
Files/GTK/2.0/bin PATH = /cygdrive/c/Program Files/QuickTime/QTSystem/ PATH
= /cygdrive/c/msys/1.0 PATH = /cygdrive/c/msys/1.0/bin PATH =
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/90/Tools/binn/ PATH =
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/TortoiseSVN/bin PATH = /cygdrive/c/Program
Files/ATI Technologies/ATI.ACE/Core-Static PATH = /cygdrive/c/CUDA/bin PATH
= /cygdrive/c/Program Files/IMSI/FloorPlan 3D v8/Program PATH =
/usr/X11R6/bin PATH = /usr/X11R6/bin PATH = /usr/lib/lapack
BOOST_ROOT =
/cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA/source/3rdParty/Win32/boost/boost_1_38_0
Hello world
TOP = /cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA

SRC=../src/libglut.cpp
/cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA/source/3rdParty/Win32/boost/boost_1_38_0/tools/build/v2/build/feature.jam:481:
in feature.validate-value-string from module feature
error: "windows" is not a known value of feature <os>
error: legal values: "CYGWIN"
/cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA/source/3rdParty/Win32/boost/boost_1_38_0/tools/build/v2/build/property.jam:276:
in validate1 from module property
/cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA/source/3rdParty/Win32/boost/boost_1_38_0/tools/build/v2/build/property.jam:301:
in property.validate from module property
/cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA/source/3rdParty/Win32/boost/boost_1_38_0/tools/build/v2/build/build-request.jam:216:
in convert-command-line-element from module build-request
/cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA/source/3rdParty/Win32/boost/boost_1_38_0/tools/build/v2/build/build-request.jam:153:
in build-request.from-command-line from module build-request
/cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA/source/3rdParty/Win32/boost/boost_1_38_0/tools/build/v2/build-system.jam:573:
in load from module build-system
/cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA/source/3rdParty/Win32/boost/boost_1_38_0/tools/build/v2/kernel/modules.jam:283:
in import from module modules
/cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA/source/3rdParty/Win32/boost/boost_1_38_0/tools/build/v2/kernel/bootstrap.jam:138:
in boost-build from module
/cygdrive/e/projects/Quantumspex/projects/3D_DSA/boost-build.jam:2: in
module scope from module

Notice error by bjam of:

error: "windows" is not a known value of feature <os>
error: legal values: "CYGWIN"

>
> In Christ,
> Steven Watanabe
>
>
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