"John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote in message news:00f101c417fa$77a34c70$81e70352@fuji...

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I built bjam for 1.31 and then I built bcp for 1.31 using MingW/GCC 3.3.1 using bjam version 1. I then opened a command prompt, went to the root directory of my Boost 1.31 distribution and tried:

bcp --list shared_ptr

I received this error message:

**** exception(205): std::runtime_error: Error opening for output. ******** errors detected; see standard output for details ********

Looks like std::cout was unable to open up a stream?

Seems like some sort of bug in GCC 3.3.1/MingW.

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I then went to the boost subdirectory of my Boost 1.31 distribution and typed the same command as above and received:

no errors detected

but no other output was printed on standard out. I am just trying to get

a

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list of any dependencies which shared_ptr has using bcp. What am I missing in this entire procedure ? It does not appear that bcp is working correctly but maybe I am missing something in how it should be working.

The only way I can get no output (as in your vc7.1 case) is if libs/shared_ptr is an empty directory (Note that listing for "shared_ptr" lists everything used by that lib, including all the testing code, use "bcp --list shared_ptr.hpp" if you just want the header's dependencies). I've just built and tested with Borland, VC7.1, Intel8, and cygwin and they're all working OK for me (with the current release version).

I tried bcp --list shared_ptr.hpp with the same problems. I was trying GCC 3.3.1, not VC7.1. I will try VC7.1 and see what occurs and report any errors I get. This is really my first time working withj GCC 3.3.1 and evidently there are things about how it works which I don't know. I can try to build a debug version with GCC 3.3.1 and attempt to step through the gdb debugger to see why it is not opening a std::cout stream properly, but maybe it is not worth it if I can get bcp working by building it with VC7.1 . Thanks for checking it out.