Re: bjam and windows command line problem.

"David Abrahams" wrote in message news:u7kgfqx6f.fsf@boost-consulting.com...

"Fernando Cacciola" writes:

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Hi,

I'm having a hard time trying to use bjam to build boost 1.29.0. I have Win98 in Spanish, and I use Borland C++ Builder 5.0 (its bcc32.exe corresponds to is BCC5.5.1)

I have boost 1.29.0 installed at: "C:\Libraries\boost\Repository\boost"

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If I'm interpreting this output correctly, the problem is that the command line feed to bcc32 exceeds 256 characters.

What can be done about this? Is there a way for 'borland-tools.jam' to put the bcc32 parameters in a tmp response file and use: bcc32.exe @tmprsp.rsp?

Any help will be appreciated.

Fernando,

Unfortunately, bjam is somewhat limited by the underlying shell used to actually run the build commands. We've had a hard time getting it to cooperate with Win9x for that reason. John Maddock has had some success by building and running bjam under Cygwin, which has no command-line length limitation. I'm not sure whether it can be made to run the Borland toolset that way or not, but I know that John targets Borland so it's a good bet.

OK, this might work... thank you. The only problem is that the cygwin-bjam that I've just downloaded from: http://www.boost.org/tools/build/index.html#Jam yields an Access Violation when executed from within my cygwin installation. My cygwin bash.exe it's version 2.04.0(1)-release. Do you know if I require an updated version of cygwin, or is there a problem with the bjam executable? TIA, -- Fernando Cacciola