"Jeff Flinn" writes:

First the nit -

The examples for running bjam include the arguments in double quotes as in:

bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" install

Being bjam and generally makefile(and generally command line) impaired I tried:

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

Which results in:

VC71-tools.jam: No such file or directory

That's because there's no "VC71" toolset. What made you think there was?

C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:630: in C++ rule C++-action unknown in module C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:1097: in Object C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:1162: in Objects C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:130: in dll-files C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:1934: in subvariant-target C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:2361: in stage Jamfile:144: in load-jamfiles C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\tools\build\v1\bootstrap.jam:15: in boost-build C:\boost\boost_1_31_0\boost-build.jam:16: in module scope

Of course the following works great!

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

So I'm not sure of the purpose of the "" in the documentation, but they are misleading, at least to me.

They work for me.

The Praise -

Awesome improvement in the completeness and organization of the built libs and dlls!

Credit to Rene Rivera. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com