On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Boris Schaeling wrote:

As I started to use Boost.Build recely I wrote everything down what I learnt and what is partly missing in the documentation. The article can be found at: http://www.highscore.de/cpp/boostbuild/

There is also a reference of rules and features. If someone likes me to add more rules and features just send me a mail (including a description as I don't know all rules and features myself :). This will not only make the reference more complete. I might also learn something new which will help me to use Boost.Build more efficiently. By the way, there is also a section about best practices which I'm also interested in.

I like it, more documentation on Boost.Build is always useful, it is not the most straightforward system, way too many names to try to remember. :)

Nice article, Boris - reads really well and gives lots of info which might otherwise be non-trivial to find. However in the feature reference table, is the following entry correct? <runtime-link> shared, static Link to singlethreaded or thread-safe runtime library. At the very least it seems to be missing the "dynamic" entry, but the description doesn't seem right either - I thought it was more of a dynamic link vs static link type thing, I could be wrong though! - Sean