Re: [Boost-users] Building boost from straight Windows Command Prompt

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building boost from straight Windows Command Prompt
From: Michael Powell (mwpowellnm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-16 14:36:43

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle... That works. Beautiful thing, that...

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Michael Powell <mwpowellnm_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Are you positive of that? Because the last instruction I know about is that
> bootstrap et al should be run from the MSVS command prompt... I'll try it
> without the VCVARSALL.BAT, however, because that would, of course, be
> preferable...
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Andrew Holden <
> aholden_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:15 PM, Michael Powell
>> > So... If I want to build boost from a straight up Windows Command
>> Prompt
>> > in the Visual Studio environment, the key is that we run the
>> VCVARSALL.BAT
>> > file prior to running the bootstrap, etc, etc? For instance, if we
>> wanted
>> > to route a conditional build of boost through our Continuous
>> Integration
>> > process using NAnt, for instance...
>>
>> VCVARSALL.BAT should be unnecessary.  Bootstrap should find a compiler
>> (any compiler) to build bjam.  Bjam will examine its command line to
>> determine which compiler you want to use.  The entire boost build system
>> will ignore vcvarsall.bat.
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