Re: [Boost-users] bjam: defining string literals HELP!!!!

From: Tim St. Clair (timothysc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-03 23:43:47

I believe you may be looking for something like this:

<toolset>msvc:<define>_MODULE_NAME_="\\\"MyModule.dll\\\""
<toolset>gcc:<define>_MODULE_NAME_="\\\"MyModule.so\\\""

Hope this helps,
Tim

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> AMDG
>
> jono wrote:
>
>> it would be really useful for me to be able to define a string literal in
>> a Jamfile...
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> gcc -DNAME=\"variant\" does what i want, so i've also tried
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>
> Think about what bjam does with the string.  It behaves a lot
> like C++.  In other words, you use a backslash as an escape character.
> You want to generate a \" sequence in the command line.  Both
> of these are special characters, so they need to be escaped.
>
> <define>NAME=\\\"variant\\\"
>
> In Christ,
> Steven Watanabe
>
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Regards,
Timothy St. Clair
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