Re: [Boost-users] [1.34] autolink doesn't work when not specifying toolset version

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-05 07:17:00

Yuval Ronen wrote:

> I downloaded 1.34.0 beta, compiled it using
> 
> bjam --toolset=msvc --without-python stage
> 
> then wrote a small program that uses Boost.Thread. It didn't link. The
> linker was looking for libboost_thread-vc80-mt-gd-1_34.lib, but couldn't
> find it. Rightfully enough, because there was no such file. The bjam
> command created libboost_thread-vc-mt-gd-1_34.lib - almost the same,
> just "vc" instead of "vc80".
> 
> So I ran bjam again, this time with
> 
> bjam --toolset=msvc-8.0 --without-python stage
> 
> and then everything worked fine.
> 
> This can a be a bug either in Boost.Build, or in the autolink feature,
> or in the documentation (getting_started.html) that suggests that
> specifying the toolset version is optional, or in my brain... Which is it?

The way I view it is that in 1.33.1, you'd specify vc_8_0 as toolset,
and in 1.34 you have to specify msvc-8.0 to achieve same effect. 
The behaviour with plain "msvc" may be a bug, or feature, or doc issue,
depending on your point of view.

- Volodya