"Robert Ramey"
a) it's a pain to setup up 50 the vc projects to use the bjam locations. . I've changed the type of build, threading, use dll vs static lib, etc a couple of times and it's a huge pain each time.
I understand. That last thing I intend is to prophesize MS IDE (or any comnpiler specific build environment) idiosyncrasies but, OTOH, IMO, it will take less time to fix these issues than it will take for jamboost Yahoo egroup users and moderators to learn to click the button and check posts on the previous page or answer simple questions.
b) it requires that bjam already have been run once in order to create the required directories
In the worst case, one batch file can fix that. Run the file, click the mouse, ... no need to wait for Gods to answer few simple questions.
If you want to fix up the whole set of projects for vc 7.1 and vc 6 ide consistent with the above I would be appreciative. Let me know if you want to do this and I'll send you my most recent copies. Then you can send it back and I can test it and check it in.
Why not? I am intersted in boost, not in debugging xy version of bjam or whatever I'm supposed to 'need' to build boost. Let's do it. Let me know exactly what you want/need and we'll test it back and forth.
LOL - Build systems and issues in general drive me crazy. So do variations in compiler function re arcane corners of C++. So does rap music.
I know. But, in the end, to do the real work, debugging and testing in any particular environment, we have to stick with the particular compiler and particular platform. No cross-platform build tool is going to help in that case. That's why I consider generic build tool fantasies a major waste of developer's time and resources. Tony