Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote:
At Wednesday 2004-12-01 06:51, you wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
Charles Schwartz wrote:
Does anyone know of the status of Watcom (http://www.openwatcom.org/) w.r.t. boost compilation?
I don't.
Are there plans to test against this compiler in the future?
That's not the way testing works. At least, the organization doesn't plan to test on a platform or compiler. Some individual volunteers to set up the process that periodically runs the tests and upload them.
(hint, hint: if you'd like to volunteer...)
It's now on the to-do list, how's that.
I've installed it and am trying to figure out how to write the base .jam for the compiler (need to read how to use it from the command line 1st, I guess) then I'll add it to my regression collection.
I am looking at an installation on v1.3 and from the quick scan I have done it seems that it should be possible to adapt the MS VC++ toolset (both BBv1 and BBv2) since Open Watcom: [1] provides an environment setup file at [ow]/setvars.bat (whereas for MS it is [vc]/bin/vcvars.bat. [2] provides an implementation of cl.exe at [ow]/binnt/cl.exe -- it should be easy to adapt to open watcom. As far as I can tell, this should be fairly trivial for BBv1. The question is: how do we deal with BBv2. Looking at this in general, the Digital Mars compiler provides a CL adapter, so it should be possible to do: using msvc : 7.0 : "c:/.../vc/bin/cl.exe" ; using ow : 1.3 : "c:/watcom/binnt/cl.exe" ; using dm : 8.4 : "c:/dm/bin/cl.exe" ; where ow and dm are defined something like (pseudocode): # ow.jam import msvc ; # bring in the msvc toolset msvc.adapter : ow : 6.0 ; # treat the ow toolset as a msvc-6.0 clone. # tell msvc where the environment configuration is relative to cl.exe msvc.setup : ow : "../setvars.bat" ; # --end ow.jam I don't know how easy this would be to implement. The alternative would be to duplicate the msvc.jam configuration and adapt it for OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers. Regards, Reece