Vladimir Prus wrote:
Stephen Nuchia wrote:
Are you saying that the difference in syntax is significant? Is the line you quoted, presumably prefixed with "bjam ", supposed to be sufficient?
Yes. To clarify, you've originally mentioned:
--toolset=msvc msvc/architecture=x86/address-model=64
and "--toolset=msvc" is exactly same as "toolset=msvc", so the above is:
toolset=msvc toolset=msvc/architecture=x86/address-model=64
and it's requesting two build everything twice -- in 32-bit mode, and 64-bit mode, and given that library filenames are the same, naturally things don't really work well.
This is yet another example how "--toolset" confuses everybody.
I seriously doubt the additional "--" are the real source of the confusion in this case. However, feel free to remove it if you think it's more confusing than helpful. Just open a ticket for me to update the getting started guide appropriately. Actually, we probably should just deprecate it (i.e. only remove its documentation but not the implementation) for backward compatibility and so people finding old web pages and suchlike will not fail to build too early on :-) -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com