Re: [Boost-users] How to suppress vcvarsall.bat call?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] How to suppress vcvarsall.bat call?
From: Peter Klotz (peter.klotz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-09 13:16:32

Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
>   Hi Peter.
> 
>> When compiling Boost 1.38.0 with this command, bjam 3.1.17 insists on 
>> calling vcvarsall.bat before executing the actual build commands.
>>
>> bjam -q -sNO_COMPRESSION=1 --build-type=complete --abbreviate-paths 
>> --toolset=msvc-8.0 architecture=x86 address-model=32
>>
>> However my environment already includes all necessary settings to 
>> execute cl, link,...
>>
>> So I would like to skip the call to vcvarsall.bat. Is this possible 
>> using a bjam command line argument?
> 
>   As I recall it is. When you initialize your msvc toolset pass it an 
> empty <setup> property or something like that. Look at the init() rule 
> in the msvc.jam toolset module for more detailed information.
> 

Property <setup> is mentioned in msvc.jam but neither "--setup=" nor 
"setup=" works.

Can you give me any advice on the command line syntax?

Regards, Peter.