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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] has_icu_test.cpp
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-06-27 03:24:00


> That's what my googling yielded, but is somewhat vague. How does the IDE
> know bjam is a compiler at all? Where is it being redirected to?
> std::cerr? std::cout? some other stream?

I'm sorry I don't know the details, just that it's an issue.

Boost.Build is capturing the compiler output in it's own internal stream,
and somehow Visual Studio is able to spot if cl is a subprocess of the
command being executed and grabs it's output before the actual command being
run.

John.


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