Subject: Re: [Boost-users] What is wrong building a debug build of boost?
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-11 12:33:03
Hansi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Til now I have used the following 2 commands to build the boost library:
>
> bjam.exe --toolset=msvc --build-type=debug link=static threading=multi
> stage --stagedir=.
>
> bjam.exe --toolset=msvc --build-type=release link=static threading=multi
> stage --stagedir=.
>
> and it has worked with boost 1.37.
I don't know what you mean by "worked". Your usage of "--build-type" could
never have any effect on anything.
> With boost 1.38 I don't get anymore the debug builds of the library.
> What it is wrong with this command?
The Boost.Build invocation is documented at:
http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/invocation.html
and one of the example shows how to request specific values of the properties,
including "variant=debug".
- Volodya