| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Rene Rivera | Sent: 15 August 2005 02:26 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: Re: [boost] compile boost 1.3.3 | Try: | | bjam -sVC71_ROOT="E:\programme\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7" | -sTOOLS=vc-7_1 install | | Or: | | bjam -sTOOLS=vc-7_1 install I am also trying to build the test library from the new 1.33 release using MSVC 2005 beta2. After too long struggling, I have, again, to beg for help :-(( I have installed bjam at c:\winnt\system32 and confirmed its presence with I:\boost_1_33_0>bjam -v Boost.Jam Version 3.1.11. OS=NT. Copyright 1993-2002 Christopher Seiwald and Perforce Software, Inc. Copyright 2001 David Turner. Copyright 2001-2004 David Abrahams. Copyright 2002-2005 Rene Rivera. Copyright 2003-2005 Vladimir Prus. Having failed with I:\>bjam -h Invalid option: -h usage: bjam [ options ] targets... -a Build all targets, even if they are current. -dx Set the debug level to x (0-9). -fx Read x instead of Jambase. -jx Run up to x shell commands concurrently. -n Don't actually execute the updating actions. -ox Write the updating actions to file x. -q Quit quickly as soon as a target fails. -sx=y Set variable x=y, overriding environment. -tx Rebuild x, even if it is up-to-date. -v Print the version of jam and exit. --x Option is ignored. And bjam -? which appears to take a long time doing nothing (I killed it). despite discouragement from C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>bjam --help Jamfile: No such file or directory Jamfile: No such file or directory ...found 8 targets... Whose meaning is unclear, except that a jamfile is missing! What are the 'targets'? (BTW why does -v show version and exit - why not show version and carry on to document the bjam version used on screen or better in the log file). My MSVC is standard location: cl.exe and lib.exe and link.exe are at "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin" so I have assumed that the root is -sMSVC_ROOT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\" I assume I need to specify msvc as my TOOLS -sTOOLS=msvc My Boost 1.33.0 is installed at i:\boost_1_33_0 so I have CDed to it and run (to a long file, too much to view on screens buffer) I:\boost_1_33_0>bjam -q -sMSVC_ROOT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\ VC" -sTOOLS=msvc --builddir=i:\temp --with=test --stagedir=i:\libs --without-pyt hon stage > i:\temp\bjam.log despite --with-test or -with-test_exec_monitor (Is the 'with' name the group or the individual? Why a - and not a =?) I get ALL the libraries built at i:\libs, as requested. And they have the wrong name - vc6 - a compiler I thankfully discarded some long time ago ;-) I get two versions, one labelled with Boost version, one not. Why? I presume I can rename and install these lib files, but how should they be named Right First Time? Thanks for any elucidations. Paul Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB +44 1539 561830 +44 7714 330204 mailto: pbristow@hetp.u-net.com