[Boost-users] boost_1_31_0 documentation - "Getting Started"

From: Jeff Flinn (TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-12 09:09:50

First the nit -

The examples for running bjam include the arguments in double quotes as in:

bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" install

Being bjam and generally makefile(and generally command line) impaired I
tried:

bjam "-sTOOLS=VC71" "-sVC71_ROOT=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET 2003\Vc7"

Which results in:

VC71-tools.jam: No such file or directory
C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:630: in C++
rule C++-action unknown in module
C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:1097: in Object
C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:1162: in Objects
C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:130: in dll-files
C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:1934: in
subvariant-target
C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:2361: in stage
Jamfile:144: in load-jamfiles
C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools\build\v1\bootstrap.jam:15: in boost-build
C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\boost-build.jam:16: in module scope

Of course the following works great!

bjam -sTOOLS=VC71 -sVC71_ROOT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\Vc7"

So I'm not sure of the purpose of the "" in the documentation, but they are
misleading, at least to me.

The Praise -

Awesome improvement in the completeness and organization of the built libs
and dlls!

Thanks,

Jeff