Re: [Boost-build] Problem when specifying msvc-9.0

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Problem when specifying msvc-9.0
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-11-15 19:24:19

On 11/15/2018 2:13 PM, Edward Diener via Boost-build wrote:
> On 11/15/2018 12:32 PM, Steven Watanabe via Boost-build wrote:
>> AMDG
>>
>> On 11/15/2018 10:20 AM, Edward Diener via Boost-build wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> The b2 output for msvc-9.0 starts as:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Â Â Â Â Â  cl /Zm800 -nologo
>>> @"C:\Programming\build\modular-boost\boost\bin.v2\libs\preprocessor\test\arithmetic.test\msvc-9.0\debug\threading-multi\arithmetic.obj.rsp" 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>>> operable program or batch file.
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>
>>> You can clearly see that the 'call' line is missing from the msvc-9.0
>>> output so naturally 'cl' is not recognized.
>>>
>>
>> What does --debug-configuration say?
> 
> The problem is that the VS2008 installation, which is msvc-9.0, did not 
> place a cl.exe in its "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
> 9.0\VC\bin" directory. Instead it placed its cl.exe for x86 in its 
> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\x86_amd64" 
> directory and placed its cl.exe for x64 in its "C:\Program Files 
> (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\amd64" directory.

This must be some sort of bug in the installation, perhaps having to do 
with VS2017 Community Edition being installed. I removed VS2008 and 
re-installed it, and it did not put the correct files in the vc/bin 
directory.