C++Talk.NET C++ language newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Tried Boost.build v2-m9.1 and loving it          C++Talk.NET Forum Index -> C++ Language (Moderated) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Ruby Script Guest Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:48 am    Post subject: Tried Boost.build v2-m9.1 and loving it Tried Boost.build v2.0-milestone 9.1 and really loving it. It's great for one-liner build scripts as well as very complicated scenarios involving multiple compilers & compiler versions. The only major problem is the less-than-satisfactory documentation. Truly amazing build system....once v2 gets decent documentation and a book or two, it will do to make what subversion will do to cvs. [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top Ruby Script Guest Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 3:10 am    Post subject: Re: Tried Boost.build v2-m9.1 and loving it Ruby Script wrote: Quote: Tried Boost.build v2.0-milestone 9.1 and really loving it. It's great for one-liner build scripts as well as very complicated scenarios involving multiple compilers & compiler versions. The only major problem is the less-than-satisfactory documentation. Truly amazing build system....once v2 gets decent documentation and a book or two, it will do to make what subversion will do to cvs. Well, the initial honeymoon is over. Trying to find out simple things like printing/examining the CFLAGS or LINKFLAGS value has been too much of a hassle for me--docs doesn't cover this and jamboost newsgroup seems to have many questions piped to /dev/null. Guess I'll have to checkout SCons next. I don't know Python (yet) but SCons seems to be better documented and more actively supported by experienced users than bjam v2. Pity, because I have a fairly complex project I can build using boost.build v2 for several compilers & versions simply by passing different command-line args to surprisingly *TINY* bjam scripts. Hoping it doesn't suck up too much time to migrate to SCons (or hundreds of extra lines of build script to do this). Others willing to dig thru the bjam source files will probably have better luck than I...but if the main reason for switching to a new tool is to save time, why bother? [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top David Abrahams Guest Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 10:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Tried Boost.build v2-m9.1 and loving it Ruby Script <nospam (AT) nospamnospamnospam (DOT) com> writes: Quote: Ruby Script wrote: Tried Boost.build v2.0-milestone 9.1 and really loving it. It's great for one-liner build scripts as well as very complicated scenarios involving multiple compilers & compiler versions. The only major problem is the less-than-satisfactory documentation. Truly amazing build system....once v2 gets decent documentation and a book or two, it will do to make what subversion will do to cvs. Well, the initial honeymoon is over. Trying to find out simple things like printing/examining the CFLAGS or LINKFLAGS value has been too much of a hassle for me--docs doesn't cover this and jamboost newsgroup seems to have many questions piped to /dev/null. I'm sorry to hear that. You picked a bad time to try Boost.Build v2. Vladimir Prus, who's been its main developer, is on vacation until the end of the month. The rest of us are better-versed in BBv1, and have mostly been waiting for him to get back to answer your questions. I'll see what I can do, though. Quote: Guess I'll have to checkout SCons next. I don't know Python (yet) but SCons seems to be better documented and more actively supported by experienced users than bjam v2. Possibly so. It's a good tool. Boost as a whole is about to make the transition (after the upcoming release) to BBv2 and by then I hope to be better versed in the internals myself. I started the project, but then ran out of time and, well, the details have gotten away from me. Quote: Pity, because I have a fairly complex project I can build using boost.build v2 for several compilers & versions simply by passing different command-line args to surprisingly *TINY* bjam scripts. Hoping it doesn't suck up too much time to migrate to SCons (or hundreds of extra lines of build script to do this). Others willing to dig thru the bjam source files will probably have better luck than I...but if the main reason for switching to a new tool is to save time, why bother? Heh, that's the problem with prerelease software. BBv2 is better-designed than BBv1, but it's not released yet so you can't quite count on the same level of support. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. 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