JamPlus

New features for 0.2:

• Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 solution and vcproj files.

Documentation:

• In some manner, every JamPlus feature is documented (we hope).

Jam Executable:

• Fixed a 'don't know how to make' bug when trying to create the subdirectory . (period)
• Fixed an MD5 network cache issue in filecache_fillvalues. Reported by Jan van Valburg.
• Fixed the -T command line option which, in turn, fixed the -t command line option.
• Added the MightNotUpdate flag to work as a single target alternate to Needs.
• Fixed directory file pattern match for $(dir/:W).
• Fixed variable expansion modifier issues when extra colons are present.
• Altered the way the :I= and :X= variable expansion modifiers work to better fit the documentation.
• Addded the :T variable expansion modifier to expand to the bound name.
• For the :W modifier, grab the files earlier in the variable expansion.
• Only compile a given regular expression once. This existed in the original version of the header scanning code but not the HDRPIPE version.
• Optimized retrieval of directories from the timestamp() code. This results in a very limited number of file queries for directories that cannot possibly exist. See OPT_TIMESTAMP_EXTENDED_PARENT_CHECK_EXT.
• Fixed path delimiter in pathunix.c.
• Made UseMD5Callback a built-in rule, instead of having it sit in the Jambase.
• Removed the need to compile and link against the LuaPlus library when the Lua support was turned on.
• Added Subst rule, based on Lua's string.gsub.
• Added CppCompileOptions.
• Bug fix for multiple passes.

Jambase:

• Re-added basic MinGW support, accessible by setting the COMPILER variable to mingw.
• SubIncluding a given Jamfile only happens once.
• Exits when an incorrect platform or configuration is specified.
• Added OutputPostfix, OutputPostfixClear, and OutputSuffix.
• For Visual Studio 2005, made the Microsoft .NET SDK include and library paths available.
• WINDOWS was not a side-by-side define with WIN32. Fixed.
• Attempt to load a Jamrules-style file called .jamrules.
• Fix import library dependencies for DLLs.
• Allow an additional optional SubDir parameter denoting a 'target' in the grist. LOCATE_SOURCE, LOCATE_TARGET, and SOURCE_GRIST all append it.
• IncludeModule: Modules can only be included once.
• Added ReferenceDirectories for .NET references.
• Added BatchCompileGroupSize. The default batch compilation group size is unlimited.
• Fixed precompiled header support to allow precompiled header .cpp files with relative paths attached to the name. Uses the BINDING to control the output location.
• Assign LINK_TARGET variable to the TARGET when setting up an executable or shared library link, so later post-build steps can get access to the binary without a complex look up.
• Library's OPTIONS now accepts 'noexportlib'.
• Re-added ObjectCFlags and rule_ObjectC++Flags "ObjectC++Flags".
• Added rule_FGristDirectories "FGristDirectories" rule.
• Lump rule handles .cxx.
• PrecompiledHeader rule accepts a shortened version where the .cpp and .h are determined by a single parameter.
• Optimization - Don't scan inside .lib files, since the .obj files are present by default.
• Major C/C++ compilation optimizations.
• Fix support for .c precompiled headers.
• Add CRuntimeType to change between statically linked and dynamically linked C runtimes for Visual C++.
• Remove VC5 support, since I have no way of testing it.
• Change grists to be project level and not subdirectory level.
• LINKDIRECTORIES was set up wrong and put in the global variable list. This is corrected now, and the initial LINKDIRECTORIES is assigned to *.
• Moved DEFINES down with the platform they represent.
• Change <dir> grist to <!dir!>.
• Minor clean up for calculation of MSVCNT and MSVCNT_PATH.
• Moved the MSVCNT_PATH first in the PATH.
• Get rid of top-level dependencies that don't mean anything.
• Removed unused script and targets.

Jam Modules:

• MFC module: Removed automatic ATL and MFC include and library paths. IncludeModule MFC to access the paths and apply ATL/MFC support to a target.
• DirectX module: Removed automatic DirectX include and library paths and added DirectX module. IncludeModule DirectX to apply DirectX support to a target.
• wxWidgets module: Minor fix when generating the target name.
• wxWidgets module: Added contrib libraries support. Only supports stc for now.
• DotNet module: Add StrongName rule.
• CopyDirectory and CopyFile modules: When generating a workspace that uses CopyDirectory and CopyFile, files would get copied. Both rules now guard against that during workspace generation.

JamToWorkspace:

• For the source Jamfile path, handle the case where Jamfile.jam is not specified.
• When a project is specified as existing in a workspace but has not been defined, pop up an error message instead of crashing.
• Handle quotes inside the preprocessor defines.
• Fix JamToWorkspace conversion when the target name is implicit and specified through ActiveProject.

Samples:

• Make the batch maxtargets sample a little more clear.
• helloworld test that is slightly more complicated than the helloworld sample app.
• Add md5test.jam in tests/md5/.
• Add tests/expand/expandtests.jam.
• Very simple generatedheader test added.
• tests/source_and_jamfiles_separate example added.
• Batch file in samples/sharedlib/ to create a CodeBlocks MinGW project.
• Lua parsing phase examples in tests/lua/testluaparser.jam and tests/lua/testluaparser.jam.lua
• Added tutorial 02-helloworld-static.
• Useful output in the filecache_luamd5callback test.
• tests/compile_outputastree/ - Fix obj/ output location.
• Add .fx compilation sample.