Re: [Boost-build] New Boost.Build tutorial

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] New Boost.Build tutorial
From: Boris Schaeling (boris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-26 10:19:03

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:37:10 +0200, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

Hi Vladimir,

> [...]thank you for writing this up -- it is pretty concise and direct  
> tutorial,
> and is better in some respects than the official documentation. For the  
> short
> term, I have an action item to add link to this tutorial from the  
> Boost.Build
> website. In the longer term, hopefully some parts of it, or all of it, or
> structuring ideas thereof, can be included in the official documentation.

thanks, this also tells me that my ideas of what Boost.Build is and how it  
is meant to be used are not so wrong. :)

I guess it's also interesting to read a tutorial written by a newbie to  
understand how newbies approach Boost.Build. You probably know Boost.Build  
inside out. For years I only used bjam to build the Boost C++ libraries.  
And for example I always wondered why there are so many different command  
line options. The "Getting started" tutorial for Windows for example  
contains:

bjam --build-dir=build-directory toolset=toolset-name  
--build-type=complete stage

There is a --foo=bar, a foo=bar and a foo option. If you want to add  
another option you need to find out first how it is written. I always  
managed to build the Boost C++ libraries. But I never fully understood why  
bjam is invoked this way and and not another.

Boris