Re: [Boost-users] How to build specified type of library with bjam?

From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-23 01:51:18

Bill David wrote:

> 1.I have checked the Jamroot.jam file, it seems we can specify a build-type
> of minimal or complete. e.g.
> bjam --toolset=msvc-9.0 --with-regex --build-type=complete stage
> But it can not meet my requirement. For example, I just want to build
> debug release <threading>multi <link>static.
> How could I specify it?

bjam debug release threading=multi link=static

> 2.it seems we can specify link/runtime-link options, what's the difference
> between link static and runtime-link static?

'link' determines if the produced libraries are static or shared
'runtime-link' determines if static or shared runtime is used.

> Does libboost_regex-vc90-mt-gd-1_35.lib means it's a multi-threading debug
> version of static link edition of regex library?
> But how about libboost_date_time-vc90-mt-sgd-1_35.lib? What does the -sgd
> mean?
> What's the naming convention?

See http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#library-naming

- Volodya