RE: [Boost-users] configuring boost on MS Visual Studio 6 where the installation drive isn't C:

From: Dernoncourt, Wayne CTR NAVAIR 3184, ,10 (wayne.dernoncourt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-05 13:16:29

(I've been using MS Outlook for years and I still don't like the way it handles quoting like this!)

Please pardon the newbieness, these are probably elmentary questions.

It turns out the copy of Boost I have didn't have a bjam.exe (I don't know why) so I had to puzzle out how to build that (bad path, etc.)  Now trying to figure out how to get Boost to build - done sort of.  I don't see how this is going to examine the conflicts with the subset of RogueWave being used by the third party SDK.  According to the results from the command "bjam" being executed in the D:\boost-1.30.2 directory:
 - failed updating 660 targets
 - skipped 234 targets
 - updated 260 targets (the actual number has scrolled off screen...)

Looking back through the screens, there seem to be CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Visual Studio...",
well that isn't right, it lives on D:, not C:.  An earlier email suggested an S setting, so I tried:
bjam "VC6_ROOT=D:\Progra~1\Micros~1" and it complains about not having Python (well, it hasn't been installed, we don't need it for this project, though it seems to be very popular) and then it complains about not knowning how to make VC6_ROOT=D:\same stuff.  
  ...found 1 target
  ...can't find 1 target

and it quits.

-----Original Message-----
From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]
[mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]]On Behalf Of Administrator
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 14:54
To: 'Boost Users mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Boost-users] configuring boost on MS Visual Studio 6 where
the installation drive isn't C:

Wayne,

What configure script?  Boost requires bjam.exe.  If you follow the
directions here: http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started.html you should
have no problems.  I have never had a problem with either MS Visual C++ 6.0
with regards to bjam, nor have I ever used a configure script with Boost.
Cygwin is an alternative, but you shouldn't need it if you follow the
getting started directions.

Dale

-----Original Message-----
From: Dernoncourt, Wayne CTR NAVAIR 3184, ,10
[mailto:wayne.dernoncourt_at_[hidden]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:17 AM
To: Boost Users mailing list
Subject: [Boost-users] configuring boost on MS Visual Studio 6 where the
installation drive isn't C:

For a number of reasons we don't have MS Visual Studio installed on the C:
drive.  We also have another SDK installed that uses part of Rogue Wave.
Both libraries try to define min, max and a reverse iterator (there are
items, those are the ones we've come across in an afternoon of
experimentation).  As I understand things, the ./configure script will look
for conflicts with other libraries and try to work around them.

The ./configure script is a bourne shell script, but there is no obvious way
of running that script in Windows.  One approach I thought of was to install
cygwin to run the script, but that would have to invoke the MS C++ compiler
(invoking a Windows based tool from inside of a Linux like environment), I'm
not sure that would actually work.  Are there alternatives that need to be
explored?  Would the cygwin approach actually work? (we are currently using
MS Visual Studio 6 because of requirement of the other SDK)

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