Re: [boost] Bjam outside Boost tree

4 Oct 2009


      Sorry I don't read the complete mail. More below

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "vicente.botet" <vicente.botet@wanadoo.fr>
To: <boost@lists.boost.org>
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] Bjam outside Boost tree
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Hi,
If I'm not wrong you need to add \tools\build\v2 on the BOOST_BUILD_PATH setting
BOOST_BUILD_PATH="C:\Users\JLL\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\boost_1_40_0\tools\build\v2"
Do you have a Jamroot.jam file on your project directory?
Vicente
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean-Louis Leroy" <jl@yorel.be>
To: <boost@lists.boost.org>
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] Bjam outside Boost tree
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Maybe if you show what kind of errors do you get could help.
Could you give the values of BOOST_BUILD_PATH and BOOST_ROOT ?
Thanks. Everything is below. I think I am getting closer: maybe it's the 
way I refer to the test monitor: ../../test/build//boost_test_exec_monitor
I gues I should put a bjam variable there...
J-L
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cd
C:\Users\JLL\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\rdb.hg
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set B
Environment variable B not defined
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tree
C:.
├───boost
│   └───rdb
│       └───sql
│           └───detail
└───libs
    └───rdb
        ├───build
        ├───doc
        │   └───templates
        ├───msvc
        │   ├───examples
        │   ├───odbc
        │   ├───rdb
        │   ├───test_odbc
        │   ├───test_rdb
        │   └───tutorial
        ├───src
        └───test
My boost tree is at:
C:\Users\JLL\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\boost_1_40_0
For the first attempt: no Jamfile in the root of my tree.
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cd libs\rdb\test
bjam
Unable to load Boost.Build: could not find "boost-build.jam"
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bjam --build-path "C:\Users\JLL\Documents\Visual Studio 
2008\Projects\boost_1_40_0"
Unable to load Boost.Build: could not find "boost-build.jam"
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set BOOST_BUILD_PATH="C:\Users\JLL\Documents\Visual Studio 
2008\Projects\boost_1_40_0"
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bjam
error: Could not find parent for project at '.'
error: Did not find Jamfile.jam or Jamroot.jam in any parent directory.
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copy ..\..\..\..\boost_1_40_0\Jamroot "C:\Users\JLL\Documents\Visual 
Studio 2008\Projects\rdb.hg"
        1 file(s) copied.
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bjam
warning: No toolsets are configured.
warning: Configuring default toolset "msvc".
warning: If the default is wrong, your build may not work correctly.
warning: Use the "toolset=xxxxx" option to override our guess.
warning: For more configuration options, please consult
warning: 
http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/configuration.html
error: Unable to find file or target named
error:     '../../test/build//boost_test_exec_monitor'
error: referred from project at
error:     '.'
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type Jamfile.v2
# bring in rules for testing
import testing ;
project
    : requirements
    <library>../build//boost_rdb
    <link>static
    ;
{
   test-suite "rdb"
        :
        [ run test.cpp  ../../test/build//boost_test_exec_monitor  ]
       ;
}
have you tried the BOOST_ROOT absolute path instead of a relative one,  here

     [ run test.cpp  ../../test/build//boost_test_exec_monitor  ]

?