I'm sorry, I should never have approved this posting for the boost-announce list. Appropriate lists for these question should be evident by reading http://www.boost.org/more/mailing_lists.htm. I suggest the C++-sig for Boost.Python and the Jamboost list for Boost.Build. Please take any further correspondence to one of those two lists. "Robert Pasquini" writes:

Hello, I'm new to boost. I'm trying to use boost for Python, which I'm also new to. I'm going to be porting python to platform where I will embedding python into another process. I will not be able to dynamically link modules on that platform. I think I see that there is a way to have the bjam compile as a static library. I would be able to use that given library file to link into the python core library file and use the module in my embedded program correct? Please correct me if I am wrong. I've been thrown into a lot, and I have to assess some things quickly, so forgive my lack of research.

Yes; the current CVS even uses a static Boost.Python library build for its embedding test. See libs/python/test/Jamfile.

But, I have not been able to compile bjam yet, because my current system is kind of messy and the build batch file got confused as to which compiler to use (I'll be dealing with that later). Is there somewhere I can just grab a pre-built bjam .exe?

You haven't told us what your platform is, so I can't say whether we have a prebuilt executable for you. http://www.boost.org/tools/build/#Jam describes where they can be downloaded. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com