Question

Isn’t there an easy way to select the source files and build them with all multithreading options (/MT, /MTd, /MD, /MDd) for MSVC v.8?

I’ve seen this command,

C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_46_1> bjam ^
More? --build-dir="C:\Documents and Settings\dave\build-boost" ^
More? --build-type=complete msvc stage

from MSVC Command prompt, but this process takes very long on my OS, like upto 10 hours, running on 1.66 Ghz Intel Duo Core, with 512 RAM.

How can i select the librares that I want to build?

Answer 1

Further down on the page you quote from:

In particular, to limit the amount of time spent building, you may be interested in:
reviewing the list of library names with –show-libraries
limiting which libraries get built with the –with-library-name or –without-library-name options
choosing a specific build variant by adding release or debug to the command line.