Building with MSVC from Cygwin doesn't work

[Dave Abrahams]

Even when I correct the problem described in ​http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/15254 by executing

export VS80COMNTOOLS="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\Common7\\Tools\\"

in my Cygwin shell, the build still doesn't work. If I copy the bjam-generated commands and execute them from my bash shell, they work, but when bjam executes them, it sees nonzero error codes. There are no error messages from the invoked command; I'm not sure if that means it's failing or just that its return status is misinterpreted.

There's a lot of code in msvc.jam devoted to getting builds from other OSes to work. Was it tested?

[jurko.gospodnetic@…]

I tested this on Windows XP SP3 & cygwin bash and it works fine for me.

Cygwin version information:

bash-3.2$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Badger 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin

So, I'll close this issue until someone can present a failing use case.

Also, when opening a Cygwin shell I do have the VS##COMNTOOLS variables defined:

bash-3.2$ env | grep VS
VS71COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\
VS90COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\

but that is a different story.

Best regards,

Jurko Gospodnetić

[Dave Abrahams]

1. This probably should be reopened, because you're not supposed to *need* any environment variables set in order to use Boost.Build, at least as long as you have the right stuff in your user-config.jam, and in fact the msvc toolset goes to such lengths to do auto-detection that a normally installed system should work even without a user-config.jam

2. shouldn't we copy all these issues over to ​http://svn.boost.org and shut this one's ticket system down? Importing this trac into another one shouldn't be *too* hard (I think).

[Md Abdur Rahim]

1. This probably should be reopened, because you're not supposed to *need* any environment variables set in order to use Boost.Build, at least as long as you have the right stuff in your user-config.jam, and in fact the msvc toolset goes to such lengths to do auto-detection that a normally installed system should work even without a user-config.jam

Ok, I'm reopening the ticket so I do not forget to look into this, but I do not have time to look at it just now.

2. shouldn't we copy all these issues over to ​http://svn.boost.org and shut this one's ticket system down? Importing this trac into another one shouldn't be *too* hard (I think).

That's something to take up with Volodya, but I think he wants Boost Build to remain separate.

Best regards,

Jurko Gospodnetić