Re: [Boost-users] How to disable the check or the error after checking for ICU (for regex lib) when building boost ?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] How to disable the check or the error after checking for ICU (for regex lib) when building boost ?
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-04 04:56:41

>>>>>> Yes, it's watching for VS_UNICODE_OUTPUT environment variable.
>>>>>> http://connect.microsoft.com/MSDNProductFeedbackCenterRedirect.aspx?pfcId=FDBK33583
>>>>>
>>>>> Excelent !
>>>>>
>>>>> I was still getting this problem with boost 1.44, so thank you for 
>>>>> this
>>>>> information. Could boost better documented this somewhere ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Better yet, could the regex build process start by unsetting this
>>>>> variable ? Should I report this somewhere ?
>>>>
>>>> Do you always get those messages, or only when building a fresh tree 
>>>> for the
>>>> first time?
>>>
>>> The project pre-build event that I set up unpacks and compiles a boost
>>> release archive, that I place on source control as part of the project
>>> files, so I always compile a fresh tree.
>>
>> Ah, this explains. Can you arrange for<boost-root>/bin.v2 directory
>> to be created before you try to build boost. 1.44 has a bug whereby
>> config log is written to<boost-root>/bin.v2/config.log, but the
>> directory is not created.
>
> I tried to interrupt the build process and start it again. The bin.v2 
> directory was there, but still no use ...

Just to complicate things further, I guess we really want to unset 
VS_UNICODE_OUTPUT only when doing the config, not the regular build - as in 
the latter case you might want to see the messages in the IDE?  Could this 
be done with a new feature maybe?

John.