Re: [Boost-build] another simple boost build failure

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] another simple boost build failure
From: Jürgen Hunold (jhunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-23 10:19:13

Hi Ronny, 

On Tuesday, 23. October 2012 11:10:46 Ronny Herzog wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I successfully imported the boost_filesystem, but no I am stuck with
> boost_regex. The linker complains that it is not able to open
> 'libboost_regex-vc90-mt-gd-1_50.lib' although it is there (in
> c:\boost_1_50_0\stage\lib). Again, I am using Windows 7. Anyone has an
> idea why? Because the boost::filesystem works.

Well, I think autolinking is getting in the way because your Jamroot is 
slightly wrong and fails to pull  in Boost.Regex.

> link /NOLOGO /INCREMENTAL:NO /DEBUG /MACHINE:X86 /subsystem:console
> /out:"..\boo
> st-build\msvc-9.0\debug\threading-multi\spectraImport.exe"
> @"..\boost-build\ms
> vc-9.0\debug\threading-multi\spectraImport.exe.rsp"

The interesting part is in the response file "...\spectraImport.exe.rsp". To 
get its contents use -d+2 or -n. And please attach the (zipped) output next 
time.

But I guess the problem is here:

> project spectraImport
> 
>      : requirements <library>/boost/filesystem//boost_filesystem
>      : requirements <library>/boost/regex//boost_regex
>      : build-dir ../boost-build
> 
>      ;

You can only have one "requirements" block. Example below:

project spectraImport
    : requirements
        <library>/boost/filesystem//boost_filesystem
        <library>/boost/regex//boost_regex
      # Disable autolinking
        <define>BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB
     : build-dir ../boost-build
     ;

And the best is to completely disable autolinking when using Boost.Build. It 
only gets in the way.

Hope this helps,

Yours,

Jürgen
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