Re: Boost.Thread (VC specific)

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-01 15:24:22

"bill_kempf" <williamkempf_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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to learn Boost.Build)
>
> You can create your own build process that doesn't use Boost.Build.
> There's not much that's unusual about building Boost.Threads.  The
> only thing out of the ordinary is the need to create an additional
> DLL build for the threadmon stuff, but you shoud be able to figure
> this out by looking at the Jamfile even with out having any knowledge
> of Jam.  If you have problems with this I can provide some help.

Why would anyone go to all the trouble?

  myjam -sTOOLS=msvc "-sBUILD=release <debug-symbols>on"

works fine for me. This kind of stuff is what Boost.Build is good at.

-Dave