Boost Build Experiences
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
On Sun, 13 May 2007 14:18:39 -0400 "Dan Weber" <dweber@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
What, exactly, is your previous experience with boost build tools, and what documentation did you use to gain insight for this project?
No previous experience. I used the C++ Cookbook (O'Reilly) and the Boost-Build documentation on the website. Dan On 5/14/07, Jody Hagins <jody-boost-011304@atdesk.com> wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2007 14:18:39 -0400 "Dan Weber" <dweber@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
What, exactly, is your previous experience with boost build tools, and what documentation did you use to gain insight for this project? _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
1.33 absolutely refused to build on my windows xp box, I had to build it on another machine entirely. I upgraded that machine now though so cant test on it. 1.34 builds on it though, other then complaining about missing files that are in fact there anyway. But it built anyway. I have had plenty of trouble with bb so I am not attached to it at all. I am willing to try Cmake out. It cant be any worse. Dan Weber wrote:
No previous experience. I used the C++ Cookbook (O'Reilly) and the Boost-Build documentation on the website.
Dan
On 5/14/07, Jody Hagins <jody-boost-011304@atdesk.com> wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2007 14:18:39 -0400 "Dan Weber" <dweber@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
What, exactly, is your previous experience with boost build tools, and what documentation did you use to gain insight for this project?
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