Subject: Re: [boost] Build: Trying to get Boost.Build toseemyOpenSSLonWindows
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-10-02 13:13:52
Steven Watanabe wrote:
> On 10/02/2016 05:54 AM, Peter Dimov wrote:
> >
> > Things are further complicated by the fact that Boost.Build no longer
> > actually uses Visual Studio's vcvars32.bat file, it generates its own in
> > %TMP%.
> >
> > I looked at tools/build/src/tools/msvc.jam to try to figure out what it
> > does, without much success.
>
>
> Boost.Build runs vcvars32.bat once, calculates the changes that it made
> to the environment, and writes its own batch script that makes the same
> changes. The reason for this is that on some version of msvc, running
> vcvars32.bat on every compiler invocation causes a noticeable slowdown.
Thanks!
And, to get back to the problem at hand, is there something that one can put
into user-config.jam or site-config.jam to set the global 'include' and
'library-path' instead of passing them on the command line?