[Boost-build] Picking up building Java in Boost

Subject: [Boost-build] Picking up building Java in Boost
From: John Bito (jwbito_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-15 17:01:18

My project is predominantly C and I've been happy moving from a
fifteen-year-old make build to boost/bjam.  The point of the project
is to integrate some enhancements written in Java, so I'll have to
build the jar files.  I saw that some code was written by someone
outside the project about 5 years ago.  Vladimir discussed it with
Emilio Lesende and at the end of the thread
<http://lists.boost.org/boost-build/2004/06/6639.php> sent a link
<http://zigzag.cs.msu.su:7813/working_copy/v2/example/hello4/> that
isn't working today.

If Emeliano's code is available somewhere, I'd be interested in
picking it up and seeing about making it work with bjam 3.1.17 and a
recent version of the Boost build.

I also have a code-generator that produces a collection of C files, so
I'd be looking for ways to handle rules that generate multiple
targets.