Re: [Boost-build] link switches

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] link switches
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-11-12 22:14:50

AMDG

On 11/12/2017 03:03 PM, Robert Ramey via Boost-build wrote:
> Putting the finishing touches on my fix to the serialization library
> tests, I have two pesky tests left.  One is to test a shared library
> plugin on unix/linix.  Boiled down to it's essentials, the jamfile looks
> like:
> 
> ...
> lib polymorphic_derived2
>     :
>         polymorphic_derived2.cpp
>     :
>     ;
> ...
> run test_dll_plugin : polymorphic_derived2 : <link>static:<build>no
> <linkflags>-ldl ]
> 
> But I'm getting an error when I invoke the jamfile:
> 
> don't know how to make <e>polymorphc_derived2
> 
> So what am I doing wrong here?
> 

You have the arguments for `run` in the wrong order.

http://www.boost.org/build/doc/html/bbv2/builtins/testing.html

rule run ( sources + : args * : input-files * : requirements *
  : target-name ? : default-build * )

> fyi - I also got the same result with:
> 
> lib dll_polymorphic_derived2_lib
>     :
>         polymorphic_derived2.cpp
>     :
>     ;
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe