Martin Sarrazac wrote:

Hi, compiler: mingw gcc 3.4.4 I would like to compile boost.signals without exception handling, I read somewhere about the <exception-handling> feature so I tried:

bjam --builddir=c:\temp -sTOOLS=mingw "-sBUILD=debug <exception-handling>off <runtime-link>dynamic <threading>single" --libdir=C:\boost\lib\noe --with-signals -d2 install

without success, it compiles fine but not without exception handling. specifically the -fno-exception command line option should be passed to gcc and it's not.

I had a look at tools/build/v1/gcc-tools.jam and I found this line for rtti support for instance:

flags gcc C++FLAGS <rtti>off : -fno-rtti ;

However there is nothing equivalent for exceptions...

Good job on the investigation :-) Very few users bother to go this far. Yes even though "<exception-handling>" is defined there is no handling for it in the GCC toolset. It's easy enough to add that you could easily do it, as it's basically the same as the <rtti> flag you found. But it is also possible to specify any additional compile flags with the -sBUILD setting. One just needs to use the <cxxflags> feature.

On a side note I don't know how to give a new tag to the 'no exception' version of the library, so I compiled it in an other directory (--libdir=C:\boost\lib\noe). However I would much prefer to give it a specific name.

Now that's a tough one. There's no non-intrusive way to change the tags. You would need to modify the Boost.Build code some. The place to do it at would be in the "tools/build/v1/boost-base.jam" file. In there there's a "rule common-variant-tag ..." which you would need to change to add another letter to the tags when a build with <exception-handling>off shows up.

Is there somewhere information about all the -sBUILD flags can be found? Can't seem to locate it.

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