Re: [Boost-build] configuring b2 via appveyor

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] configuring b2 via appveyor
From: Stefan Seefeld (stefan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-12-07 02:56:42

On 06.12.2017 19:45, Steven Watanabe via Boost-build wrote:
[...]

>   I tried pasting it into a batch file and
> it seems to work.  Obviously appveyor is
> doing something subtly different, but it
> isn't exactly clear what.  It seems like it's
> getting one extra round of evaluation, somehow.

Yeah, I couldn't reproduce the error outside appveyor either.
>> This is why I had hoped that someone else had already generated user-config.jam 
>> files in appveyor.yml files, so I could simply learn from that experience, 
>> rather than stumbling around in the dark as I do now.
>>
>   You can avoid using user-config.jam for this
> by setting the environmental variables,
> ZLIB_INCLUDE/ZLIB_LIBRARY_PATH (and similar
> variables for the other libraries).  It will
> probably also work if you use
> b2 ... include=%VCPKG%\include library-path=%VCPKG%\lib
> although I don't think I've actually tested this.

OK, that seems to work fine indeed. Thanks !

Stefan

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