Re: [Boost-build] right way to use boost in own project

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] right way to use boost in own project
From: Anatoly Shirokov (shirokov_a_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-21 07:16:06

Vladimir Prus:
> 
> If you have Boost source tree, you can add this to your project:
> 
> 	use-project /boost : <path-to-boost-source-tree> ;
> 
> Otherwise, take a look at contrib/boost.jam -- it has comments
> about usage.
> 

Thank you very much Vladimir.

I put the following into my Jamroot:

import os ;
local BOOST = [ os.environ BOOST ] ;
use-project /boost : $(BOOST) ;

and made reference to the boost/regex//boost_regex library in the 
Jamfile file:

exe app : app.cpp /boost/regex//boost_regex ;

but I could not build my project:

 >bjam
c:\Tools\boost_1_38_0\libs\graph\build\Jamfile.v2:41: in modules.load
rule message unknown in module 
Jamfile</c:/Tools/boost_1_38_0/libs/graph/build>.
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:312: in load-jamfile
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:68: in project.load
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:718: in project.use
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:94: in load-used-projects
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:79: in project.load
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:718: in project.use
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:94: in load-used-projects
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:79: in load
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:120: in load-parent
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:447: in initialize
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:301: in load-jamfile
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:68: in load
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:120: in load-parent
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:447: in initialize
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:301: in load-jamfile
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:68: in load
C:/Tools/boost-build/build\project.jam:170: in project.find
C:/Tools/boost-build\build-system.jam:248: in load
C:\Tools\boost-build\kernel\modules.jam:261: in import
C:\Tools\boost-build\kernel\bootstrap.jam:132: in boost-build
C:\Tools\boost-build\boost-build.jam:1: in module scope

What is wrong?

 >bjam --version
Boost.Build V2 (Milestone 12)
Boost.Jam 03.1.17

Thanks in advance,
Anatoly