-----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users- bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Drumheller, Michael Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:51 PM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Getting started with Boost: what did you need toknow?
Main stumbling point for me was bjam. I have to say, I'm almost embarrassed to be writing this, because it seems like nobody on this list ever complains about bjam. So maybe it's just me. But to me, bjam is an incomprehensible monster,
[Nat] It's not just you. The more we looked at bjam, the less convinced we were that we even wanted to become good at it. When it didn't work for us right out of the box (building with MSVC 7.1 + STLport), and initial futzing showed little promise, we just constructed our own MSVC projects for the Boost libraries we needed to build, and have never looked back.