Re: [Boost-users] Getting started with Boost: what did you need toknow?

From: Nat Goodspeed (ngoodspeed_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-03 14:22:05

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-users-
> bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Drumheller, Michael
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:51 PM
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Getting started with Boost: what did you
need
> toknow?
> 
> Main stumbling point for me was bjam.
> I have to say, I'm almost embarrassed to be writing this, because it
> seems like nobody on this list ever complains about bjam.  So maybe
it's
> just me.  But to me, bjam is an incomprehensible monster, 

[Nat] It's not just you. The more we looked at bjam, the less convinced
we were that we even wanted to become good at it. When it didn't work
for us right out of the box (building with MSVC 7.1 + STLport), and
initial futzing showed little promise, we just constructed our own MSVC
projects for the Boost libraries we needed to build, and have never
looked back.