Re: Adding a toolset for a compiler

Steven Watanabe via Boost-build <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.boost.build
Organization Providere Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On 09/20/2018 12:25 PM, Edward Diener via Boost-build wrote:
> Given compiler 'xxx' with a command line 'xxx -c compile parameters...'
> for compiling cpp/c source to object files and a command line 'xxx link
> parameters... ' for linking object files into a library or an
> executable, what is the minimum contents of xxx.jam which are needed to
> use that jamfile as a 'toolset=xxx' on a b2 command line ? Is there some
> prorotype I can use for doing this ?
> 

I suggest that you start with one of the simpler toolsets, like acc.

What you need is
a) An action block for each command:
  - compile.c++
  - archive
  - link
  - link.dll
  - (optional) compile.c
  - (optional) compile.asm
b) flags settings for <include>, <define>, <cxxflags>,
   <cflags>, <linkflags>, and <archiveflags>, <library-file>,
   <library-path>, <find-static-library>, <find-shared-library>.
   Additional flags for the following will make the toolset
   more configurable, but a prototype can get by without them:
   <optimization>, <threading>, <profiling>, <debug-symbols>,
   <inlining>, <warnings>, <exception-handling>, <rtti>, <cxxstd>,
   <address-model>, <architecture>, <visibility>.
c) An init rule which can be called via `using`
d) Generators for each rule.  generators.register-c-compiler,
   generators.register-linker, and generators.register-linker
   should work.  If you inherit from `unix`, then you get these
   automatically.  (Note: you should inherit from `unix` iff
   library order on the command line must follow the usual
   unix rules.)

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe
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