Re: [Boost-build] Building with VC++ using address-model=64

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Building with VC++ using address-model=64
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-18 11:01:22

On 5/18/2013 10:30 AM, Steven Watanabe wrote:
> AMDG
>
> On 05/17/2013 05:45 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
>> I am on a 64-bit system running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I invoke:
>>
>> "bjam address-model=64 toolset=msvc-9.0"
>>
>> Boost build does invoke the VC++ 9 to build a 64 bit executable. But it
>> uses the 'x86_amd64' option to vcvarsall.bat, invoking the 32-bit
>> compiler to build the 64-bit executable rather than the 'amd64' option
>> to invoke the 64-bit compiler to build the 64-bit executable. The
>> documentation for the VC++ toolset says:
>>
>> "The (AMD64 host, AMD64 target) compiler will be used automatically when
>> you are generating AMD64 code and are running 64-bit Windows on AMD64."
>>
>> But this is not happening in my case and I am most certainly running
>> 64-bit Windows 7.
>>
>> Is this a bug in Boost Build ?
>> Is there a way I can force Boost Build to use the 64-bit compiler to
>> generate the 64-bit executable ?
>>
>
> Boost.Build tries to handle this.  However, it seems
> to be failing because bjam is built as a 32-bit executable.
> You should be able to force the issue with:
>
> using msvc : 11.0 : : <setup-options-amd64>amd64 ;

I do not see in the Boost Build documentation at 
http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/reference/tools.html#bbv2.reference.tools.compiler.msvc 
any mention of an optioned named 'setup-options-amd64'. Is this just 
missing from the documentation ? Did you mean 'setup-amd64' instead ?