[Boost-users] Re: Newbie help in compiling boost

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-16 14:10:13

Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:
> Platform: Windows XP
> Compiler: VC7 (Visual Studio .NET)
> Shell: Cmd.exe
> BJAM: Prebuilt version 3.1.10-1-ntx86 from sourceforge
> Boost Version: 1.31.0
> 
> On the prompt:
> * set PYTHON_ROOT=C:\Python23
> * set PYTHON_VERSION=2.3
> * C:\Program Files\...\VC7\bin\VCVARS32.BAT (execute this)
> * bjam "-sTOOLS=vc7" install

Nice! Thanks for listing the basic info most people don't mention :-)

> I get a whole lot of lines of the form
> ...skipped XXX for lack of YYY...
> and finally get
> 
> ...failed updating 2 targets
> ...skipped 3077 targets
> 
> Any pointers on what I am doing wrong.

What you did looks reasonable. What the failures you are seeing? What 
does it skip building? Are they compile errors?

--grafik