"John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> writes:
Dave, these are good, I like them :-)
The main thing I noticed is that you give the msvc toolset name as simply "msvc", but if you build with
bjam toolset=msvc
then the libraries won't have the msvc version number in them and auto-linking won't work :-(
Are you sure? If so, we should fix that. The toolset already has code to detect the version being used. Maybe this would assuage some of Volodya's concern about a toolset twice, once with and once without a version number.
Maybe lable the toolset as "msvc-x.y" and then define valid values for x and y in the text?
I'd rather make it "just work" than complicate the instructions. I do say that you can add an explicit version number if you choose to, but obviously that ain't enough. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com