Re: [Boost-build] Build libs: which ver. of MSVC?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Build libs: which ver. of MSVC?
From: Phillip Seaver (phil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-21 09:07:48

On 9/21/2012 9:06 AM, Phillip Seaver wrote:
> On 9/21/2012 6:29 AM, Lars Viklund wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:33:36AM +0200, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - 
>> Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
>>> How does b2 detect the MSVC version?
>> Brute-force against a pile of registry keys, and if all else fails, it
>> tries 'cl.exe' in the runtime path.
>>
>>> Where to specify the target MSVC version to be 9.0?
>> b2 toolset=msvc-9.0
>>
>> This pattern holds for most the possible toolsets, being
>> toolset=name-major.minor
>>
>
> You can also shorten it to "b2 msvc-9.0".
>
> If you almost always want to build with a particular compiler, you can 
> also put "using msvc : 9.0 ;" in your user-config.jam.  I think you 
> should still be able to build with a different compiler by specifying 
> it on the command-line.

I forgot to include a link to information about user-config.jam: 
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/doc/html/bbv2/overview.html#bbv2.overview.configuration

Phillip