[C++-sig] 2 Problems in build

[David Abrahams]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David LeBlanc" <whisper at oz.net>


> mpl fuss: only that you said I needed it.

You do. If you don't have it, the build will fail.

> WRT the build problems, I did set all the environment variables as
indicated

as indicated where?

> and yet, the defaults from the jam file where what jam displayed before
it
> massively failed on all the targets due to tools not being found. That
> problem went away when I changed the defaults in the python and
msvc-tools
> jam files. I didn't/don't know what else to try.

My settings for MSVC are:

    set VISUALC=c:\tools\msvc6\vc98

You could also use the MSVC_ROOT variable for this purpose.

If MSVCDir is set, the toolset will assume that the MSVC bin directory is
in your path.

-Dave