[Boost-users] Re: boost_1_31_0 documentation - "Getting Started"

12 Feb 2004

      "David Abrahams"  wrote in message
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"Jeff Flinn"  writes:
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bjam -sTOOLS=VC71 -sVC71_ROOT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET
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2003\Vc7"
Sorry, but I have a hard time believing that.  We don't have a "VC71"
toolset, so the above invocation should cause an error.
That was a typo in transcribing to the email, the exact command cut & pasted
from the command prompt window that worked was:

bjam -sTOOLS=VC7.1 -sVC71_ROOT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET 2003\Vc7"
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So I'm not sure of the purpose of the "" in the documentation, but they
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misleading, at least to me.
They work for me.
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The Praise -
Awesome improvement in the completeness and organization of the built
Aah, I see now it wasn't the "" that was the problem it was the missing '.'
in:

bjam "-sTOOLS=VC71" "-sVC71_ROOT=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET 2003\Vc7"

Sorry for jumping to conclusions. Out of curiosity, why then the
inconsistency between VC7.1 tool and VC71_ROOT?

libs
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and dlls!
Credit to Rene Rivera.
Definitely!

I see I can have both VC7.1 and VC6 builds coexist, great!

Thanks again,

Jeff F