Re: [Boost-build] Passing link-flags to boost-build

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Passing link-flags to boost-build
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-30 19:22:29

AMDG

On 03/30/2017 12:19 PM, Ts, Raghu via Boost-build wrote:
>
> I'm new to the Boost-world and have been entrusted with a task to build these libraries for UWP-Apps. I'm particularly interested in following libraries - 'filesystem', 'log', 'thread'. I tried building the entire gamut of libraries in Store-mode, but encountered many failures, including these libraries of interest.
> 

  Please post specific errors.  These three libraries
all require platform specific implementation, so it's
entirely possible that they don't support building with
windows-api=store.  (Also, assuming that the command
line isn't the problem, compile errors would be more
appropriate at boost-users.)

> Alternatively, I set out to build the Boost-libraries in Desktop-mode, but linking only against 'OneCoreUap.lib', instead of the plethora of libraries such as 'kernel32.lib', 'advapi32.lib', 'user32.lib', etc. However, I'm not able to pass on the link-flags to build-tool.
> 
> I'm using the following JAM-declaration:
> using msvc : 14.0 : :
> <linkflags>"\"C:/WDK/Lib/winv10.0/um/x64/OneCoreUAP.Lib"\"
> <linkflags>/NODEFAULTLIB:"kernel32.lib"
> <linkflags>/NODEFAULTLIB:"advapi32.lib"
> ;
> 
> Whether I use the command-line option or via JAM-file declaration, the link-options don't get passed on to the build-tool. If I modify the <linkflags> to <compileflags>, all the options get propagated properly; of course, it'll lead to errors as these are not compile-time flags.
> 
> Could someone please help me with what am I missing?
> 

I can't reproduce your problem.  After pasting the above
into my user-config.jam, I ran:

b2 --with-system link=shared debug -n -a

Looking at the output I see:
link /NOLOGO /INCREMENTAL:NO /DLL /DEBUG /MACHINE:X86 /MANIFEST
/subsystem:console /out:"...\boost_system-vc140-mt-gd-1_63.dll"
/IMPLIB:"...\boost_system-vc140-mt-gd-1_63.lib"
"C:/WDK/Lib/winv10.0/um/x64/OneCoreUAP.Lib" /NODEFAULTLIB:kernel32.lib
/NODEFAULTLIB:advapi32.lib @"...\boost_system-vc140-mt-gd-1_63.dll.rsp"
which looks right.

What version of Boost are you using?
What command /exactly/ are you using to build?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe