Re: [Boost-users] Building 64-bit with Visual Studio 2010

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building 64-bit with Visual Studio 2010
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-17 10:45:30

AMDG

On 2/16/2011 10:34 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Greg Hickman wrote:
>
>> I can start a 32-bit VS command line and build boost_1_45_0, but the 64-bit
>> command line build fails and I can't tell why.  I'm running VS 2010 Ultimate
>> on Windows 7 Professional, and here's the boost-build invocation I'm using:
>>
>> \.bjam -j 4 *^*
>> More? *--build-dir=*"c:\temp" *^*
>> More? *--build-type=complete* *msvc-10.0* architecture=x86 address-model=64
>> stage64
>
> What are those funny characters all over? In particular, stars?
>

I suspect that the stars are for *bold* text. "^" is
the line continuation character.

>> ...but I can't tell what is going wrong looking at the output.  Can anyone
>> suggest how to ascertain the problem?  Perhaps a particular switch to see
>> wha'ts failing?
>
> What do you mean by "64-bit command line build fails". If you get a compile
> error, could you post it? If you get some other issue, can you specify
> what the issue is.
>

I think the problem is that there's no
such target as stage64.  It should be
--stagedir=stage64

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe