Re: [Boost-build] Boost.jam and 32 vs. 64 bit compilations

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Boost.jam and 32 vs. 64 bit compilations
From: Anthony Foglia (AFoglia_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-16 11:19:20

Ian Emmons wrote:
> Anthony:  I've been able to do this sort of conditional on searched-lib 
> targets.

        Yes.  Originally we had defined lib targets explicitly for each of the 
Boost libraries that needed linking, and through conditionals on those 
boost-build would find the correct version.

        My mistake was trying to switch to the "boost.jam" file, which is the 
suggested way of include boost libraries in a boost-build project.  That 
you configure by passing it <include> and <library> properties.  But the 
logic isn't smart enough to determine if one of them is set via a 
conditional.

        It looks like what I need to do is go through all the options, look to 
see if any are conditional, and if so, if they define the library path, 
and then, use that library path as the <search> property for the boost 
project defined within.  Which is way more advanced than my weak 
boost-build skills are capable of.
        (That, or get the final address-model and context at the point 
boost.use-project is called, but I don't think that's possible.)

> On Jun 15, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Anthony Foglia wrote:
> 
>     We primarily compile in 64 bit, but sometimes need 32 bit 
> compilations.  We used to have custom-made rules for the boost 
> libraries, but I'm working on switching to using the boost.jam 
> distributed in contrib.
> 
>     Is there a way to configure the rules in there so the library search 
> path correctly finds either the 32- or 64-bit libraries as needed.
> 
>     I tried lines like :
> 
> using boost
>   : 1.38
>   : <include>boost_1_38_0/include/boost-1_38
>     <address-model>64:<library>boost_1_38_0/lib
>     <address-model>32:<library>boost_1_38_0/lib32
>   ;
> 
> But the conditional parameter logic confuses boost.jam into thinking 
> boost isn't configured.

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