----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Peakall" <dale.peakall@lightyear.dabsol.co.uk>

Hi, I sent this message to the boost-users group, but that doesn't seem to have hit critical mass yet so I hope you don't mind me sending this to you directly.

Cheers,

- Dale.

-----Original Message----- From: Dale Peakall [mailto:dale.peakall@bit-arts.com]

Anyone had any success using the new build system with Comeau C++

on Win32

(MSVC6)?

I'm using the pre-compiled Win32 jam binary from the FreeType

I have ;-) project. Is

this still suitable?

Yes. It will become unsuitable soon, but you'll know when that happens.

I noticed Dave has checked in a whole bunch of changes to SourceForge. If not, is there an easy way to get the whole branch out of CVS?

There is, if you're willing to use cvs directly. Get cygwin (www.cygwin.com) or WinCVS. You might find cygwin easier to use because it has a unix command-line interface, which matches the instructions at SourceForge.

I've only ever used the web-interface which doesn't seem to provide this facility.

The first problem I encountered was jam trying to use mv. After replacing the $(MV) instructions in the como-tools.jam with copy, I managed to get some obj files

Right. produced,

but none of the libraries will link.

Oops, I need to fix the mv/copy thing. Thanks for the heads-up.

First up, I noticed that the build system requires libcomo to be in a certain location, so I

No, it doesn't really. If you set COMO_INCLUDE_PATH and COMO_STDLIB_PATH (in your environment or on Jam's command-line) you can use libcomo without modifying the jam file.

fixed that, but still nothing will link (lots of undefined external symbols - some to boost, some to std).

I'm a Comeau newbie, so I may have messed up building libcomo (which would explain the missing std symbols), but not the missing boost symbols.

Dale, I can't be sure what your problem is, but I can tell you this: I had a REALLY hard time getting como installed and running correctly on my system. I had lots of correspondence with comeau tech support before it all worked right. I suggest that you copy the command-lines generated by Jam when you try to build things with comeau, and paste them into a .bat file. Then strip them down until you can get something to build. If you can't even get a simple hello, world to separately compile/link, you should assume the problem is your installation: time to contact comeau. Otherwise, you should be able to see where the build system is getting it wrong. Try the COMO_STDLIB_PATH/COMO_INCLUDE_PATH setting above first, however. -Dave