
13 May
2007
13 May
'07
6:18 p.m.
Hi there, Last night I had a great experience for the first time with bjam and boost-build. Installation was the most difficult part, but after that writing the Jamroot was done in under 30 minutes for a library I'm working with that has a really lousy existing build system. I needed full install support (missing in the library's build) that worked consistently across operating systems. Overall, it was a great success and I'll be moving my development projects to boost-build. The only thing I couldn't figure out how to do was be able to set OS specific settings without having to rewrite the entire lib $LIBRARYNAME for that variant. Although, come to think of it, aliases would have worked well. Thanks, Dan