compiling boost on Win2k

From: Mike Owens (mikeo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-19 11:33:16

I got a this suggestion from Damien Mulligan which worked really well. Use
subst to map a drive letter to the path for the MSVC directory then use that
drive letter in the VISUALC environment variable. Works like a charm. 

I should of thought of that. Thanks Damien.

Mike

> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:12:05 -0400
>   From: Anthony Kolarik <a.kolarik_at_[hidden]>
>Subject: RE: Digest Number 11
>
>I don't have an answer for your specific JAM/Boost problem but I've seen
>similar build problems (using cons)on NT and ended up using temp files to
>hold the command line for the linker, rather than try to figure out why the
>command lines worked fine on some machines and were too much for others.

>You could look into registry settings to extend the buffer size for the
>command interpreter but unless you can do it programmatically the temp file
>approach would probably be a better.
> -- Tony K.