[build2] 0.7.0 uses g++ even cl is specified

[Kalle Møller]

Awesome, thanks!

On 14 Jan 2018 10:40, "Boris Kolpackov" <boris at codesynthesis.com> wrote:

> Kalle Møller <build2.org at k-moeller.dk> writes:
>
> > Trying to build from stage and doing the manual bootstrap (in x64 Native
> > Tools Command Shell). Building b-boot was no problem. The next stage
> gives
> > problems though
> >
> > C:\Tools\Build2\build2-0.7.0-a.0.1515401170.
> 8b07d68462c5fec9>build2\b-boot
> > config.cxx=cl config.bin.lib=static
> > config.import.libbutl=..\libbutl-0.7.0-a.0.1515401218.46b32368147e7975\
> > error: unable to execute g++: no such file or directory
> >   info: while applying rule alias to update dir{.\}
>
> Variable overrides specified on the command line have different scopes.
> The normal ones (like in the command line above) only apply to a project
> and its subprojects (actually, more precisely, to the entire amalgamation).
> As a result, because libbutl is outside the project you are trying to
> build,
> config.cxx, etc., do not apply to it.
>
> You can, however, make the override global by prefixing it with '!', for
> example (note that on POSIX one needs to quote '!'):
>
> b-boot !config.cxx=cl !config.bin.lib=static ...
>
> The build2's NEWS file has more details on variable overrides semantics
> (just search for 'override').
>
>
> > As a side note - I would love to build from git, but I can't get build2
> > (with cli installed) to build the INSTALL etc files.
>
> Yes, temporarily these are generated with a shell script which is not going
> to (easily) work on Windows. Hopefully we will be able to make this part of
> the build soon. You could probably just comment these dependencies out as
> a temporary hack.
>
> Boris
>
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