Re: [Boost-users] How to build for the VS version that I have loaded the vcvars for ?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] How to build for the VS version that I have loaded the vcvars for ?
From: Timothy Madden (terminatorul_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-30 03:23:21

Steven Watanabe wrote:
> AMDG
> 
> Timothy Madden wrote:
>> I have a project that I would like to include boost in, and I would 
>> like to build boost as part of my project build process.
>>
>> However on a computer with both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 
>> 2010 installed the .\bjam command will build the libraries for VS 
>> 2010, even though my project compiles with VS 2008.
>>
>> It is pretty useless to build the 2010 libraries for a 2008 project, 
>> because they have different names and can not be used from one Visual 
>> Studio version to another.
>>
>> Is there a way for the boost build procedure to compile libraries for 
>> the Visual Studio version that the environment variables currently 
>> point to ?
> 
> Boost.Build always uses the registry to find VS.
> The environment is only used as a last resort.
> 
>> I mean if I build boost with make from a VS 2008 project than the 
>> environment variables will point to the VS 2008 installation, and if I 
>> build boost with make from a VS 2010 project than the environment 
>> variables will point to the VS 2010 installation. Can I get bjam to 
>> build boost for the currently loaded configuration, and not the latest 
>> version that can be found installed ?
> 
> You can put
> 
> using msvc : 9.0 ;
> 
> in your user-config.jam.  (You can edit the
> project-config.jam in the Boost root directory)

I do not necessarily want 9.0 and I would not want to put a specific 
version when building. I just want to get the library for the Visual 
Studio version I am using boost with in my solution (whatever version 
that is).

Thank you,
Timothy Madden