Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #3508: bjam output in colours

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Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:27:13 GMT

attachment → colorbb

Wrapper for bjam to colourise it's output and pipe through less

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Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:27:58 GMT

attachment → colorbb.pl

Perl script based on colormake version

Vladimir Prus — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:50:04 GMT

This would be nifty. The only issue is detecting if the terminal handles those escape sequences. CMake has cmSystemTools.cxx:MakefileColorEcho, which in turn uses cmsysTerminal_Color_AssumeTTY and cmsysTerminal_cfprintf, but I could not find the definitions of those two.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:08:10 GMT

Vladimir, I appreciate you like this idea.

The function is implemented in CMake low-level module cmsys/kwsys.

Next, during building CMake, ./bootstrap step, the kwsys module, so the files above, is used to generate cmsys module and the Termina.h generated from the '"Terminal.h.in renames kwsys prefix to cmksys prefix:

#if !defined(KWSYS_NAMESPACE)
# define kwsys_ns(x) cmsys##x
# define kwsysEXPORT cmsys_EXPORT
#endif

It means, the function cmsysTerminal_cfprintf is in fact function implemented as kwsysTerminal_cfprintf in the Terminal.c file linked above.

Shortly, it is CMake/Source/kwsys what we are looking for.

milestone set

Vladimir Prus — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:37:15 GMT

milestone → Boost 1.42.0

Tentatively scheduling for 1.42

owner, component, milestone changed

Vladimir Prus — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:04:30 GMT

owner changed from René Rivera to Vladimir Prus
component bjam → build
milestone Boost 1.42.0 → Boost 1.43.0

keywords, milestone changed; cc set

jan,boehme@… — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:25:51 GMT

cc jan boehme@… added
keywords coloring output added
milestone Boost 1.43.0 → Boost 1.47.0

What about this very nice feature?

I'd like to see the target information colored too. Maybe a environment variable B(OOST)B(UILD)_COLORS to define the colors handy.

Let me know if I can be of any support here.

Mateusz Loskot — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:55:03 GMT

I posted some ideas about implementation of ECHO rule output in colours to Boost.Build ml

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Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:42:51 GMT

cc flast@… added

Mateusz Loskot — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:27:54 GMT

FYI, I have replace the idea of output colouring with a more feature-rich integration of Boost.Build with an IDE, so I went for Boost.Build Plugin for Qt Creator. Testers and contributors welcome!

Mateusz Loskot — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:33:39 GMT

For records, I added an experimental support for colorful output to echo rule and actions in https://github.com/boostorg/build/pull/573