How to build for the VS version that I have loaded the vcvars for ?
Hello 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 ? 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 ? Thank you, Timothy Madden
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) You can declare multiple versions, the first is the default, and you can select which one to build with by running bjam msvc-9.0, for example. In Christ, Steven Watanabe
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
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