Re: [Boost-users] usage of bcp

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] usage of bcp
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-08 10:22:39

AMDG

John Maddock wrote:
>> I've been reconsidering the use of bcp to import boost code into a
>> public-facing portion of our api for intrusive_ptr, I've read the
>> documentation somewhat, and tried using the command as follows:
>>
>> C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_41_0\>bcp intrusive_ptr 
>> ../../intrusive_ptr
>
> What directory is it being run from?  If it doesn't know where the 
> Boost root directory is then the "intrusive_ptr" arg will be flagged 
> as an error leading to the help screen.  So either... use the 
> --boost=path option to set the location of the boost tree, or else cd 
> into Boost's root directory and:
>
> bcp boost/intrusive_ptr.hpp destination-path
>
> to get just the header and it's dependencies, or else:
>
> bcp intrusive destination-path
>
> to get all of the "intrusive" library and it's dependencies - 
> including those of the example and test programs - ie quite a lot of 
> code.
>
> Using "intrusive_ptr" as a name failed, because there is no such 
> library name in boost... it's spelled "intrusive" instead.

Do you mean smart_ptr instead of intrusive?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe