Reece Dunn wrote:
John Torjo wrote:
Maybe to simplify the process, in boost-root (where boost-build.jam file exists), we could have a makefile which automatically builds bjam from the source files and the invokes it with a given configuation.
like: make msvc (instead of bjam "-sTOOLS=msvc")
Unfortunately, I don't have any makefile knowledge.
I am knowledgeable in makefiles, but this leads to a problem: you need to configure the makefile to handle all the various compiler and platform combinations - something bjam already handles, so why duplicate this effort?
they're not so many. I don't think it's that much: - just build bjam for all configurations (in Win32 this is just invoking some build.bat file) - copy bjam (and other needed EXEs) to boost_root - for each configuration, call bjam for it (like msvc, call bjam "-sTOOLS=msvc") This way, the regular user will get to build the needed source files without any pain.
Is there a bjam file for bjam?! That way it could be bootstrapped. But then why not just download a pre-built version of bjam?
for win32, that's about 600K. I don't like it very much. Best, John