Re: [Boost-users] build variant output directory

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] build variant output directory
From: David Klein (dave_chp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-02 12:08:57

Sebastian Hauer wrote:
> Hello,
> I was just wondering if there is some way of defining a variant's
> build output directory.  The current build output directory nesting is
> just to deep for my project.  Since I only have one debug variant and
> one release variant having a simple build output directory like:
>
> bin/debug
> bin/release
>
> would completely suffice.  But instead boost build insists on storing
> everything in directories based on the selected feature set:
>
> bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi
> bin\msvc-8.0\release\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi
>
> Also notice the additional debug-symbols-on in the release build path
> since I selected to enable debug symbols for release builds.
>
>   

hi sebastian,

i usually do a: bjam [...] stage

every lib/dll is then copied into %BOOST_ROOT%/stage/lib.

short enough? :)

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regards,
dave