Re: [Boost-users] I can't build boost!

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] I can't build boost!
From: Robert Dailey (rcdailey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-14 15:28:57

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Robert Dailey wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Zeljko Vrba <zvrba_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Sorry to rush this, but I'm completely blocked until I can build boost
> >> with
> >> > reasonable library names on Windows. Can anyone help me figure out
> what I
> >> > need to do to get the library names generated without any mangling?
> >> >
> >> Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I'm curious..  You probably
> do
> >> not
> >> build boost every day, so why don't you just manually rename or copy the
> >> resulting lib files to some sane names?
> >
> >
> > Because if I decide to use shared libraries, doing so will prevent the
> > import libraries from finding their corresponding shared library. Not to
> > mention that this is tedious to do. I would have to do this each time I
> > upgrade boost.
> >
> > @Valdimir
> >
> > I apologize, I must not be communicating with you in the same language. I
> > thought this would be simple to explain. Let me try to explain this with
> as
> > many details as I can just to make sure I'm clear. When I built boost
> 1.38
> > for Windows x86 using VS9, I used the following command line:
> >
> > bjam --toolset=msvc --layout=system link=shared threading=multi release
> > debug stage
> > *
> > *
> > When I did this, my library names looked like this (For the
> Boost.Filesystem
> > library):
> >
> > boost_filesystem-mt-gd.lib
> > boost_filesystem-mt.lib
> >
> > Everything worked just fine. The reason why I used --layout=system was so
> > that the library names were more simplified and did not contain
> information
> > like the version of boost used.
> >
> > However, when I try the very same command line with Boost 1.39 I get the
> > errors I posted earlier. I can't explain this any simpler than I am. I am
> > merely a user of boost, I do not have the domain knowledge to delve into
> > Boost.Build, nor do I want to learn it. My goal is to build boost the way
> I
> > want, not to learn a new build system. I'm already a bit upset that this
> is
> > turning out to be so complicated, I just want it to work like it is
> supposed
> > to.
>
> Because we go any further: do you know what 'patch file' is and what to do
> with it?

Yes, I did not mean to imply that I was that clueless lol. I just don't know
squat about Boost.Build, that's all.

Are you implying that this is a bug in Boost.Build (or Boost itself) and
that a patch has been made to fix it?