hongleij@126.com wrote:
as a person familiar with usage of boost,yet a green man of building the lib,i just want build the boost lib, . i have such questions:
1, how could i know the bjam config options for building boost, such as runtime-link ,threading ,--libdir, --includedir . should i must read the total bbv2 document?
bjam --help in Boost's top-level dir will show the --libdir and the like. The threading and the list are documented in the "Builtin features" section of Boost.Build manual.
2,after build the total boost lib and installed in mingw
bjam --toolset=gcc --build-dir="E:\tmp" install --libdir="C:\MinGW\lib" --includedir="C:\MinGW\include"
,i want to build the iostream with zlib support and aready installed zlib in mingw. according to the libs/iostreams/doc/index.html, i use command bjam -a --toolset=gcc -sNO_ZLIB -sZLIB_BINARY=zdll -sZLIB_LIBPATH=C:\MinGW\lib -sZLIB_INCLUDE=C:\MinGW\include get boost_iostreams-mgw41-d-1_34_1.a boost_iostreams-mgw41-d-1_34_1.dll yet cannot get libboost_iostreams-mgw41-1_34_1.a libboost_iostreams-mgw41-d-1_34_1.a and so on. thus, i still cann't use zlib with boost::iostream.
Sorry for being dense -- what is the problem, precisely? From what you wrote, the problem is wrong name of a library? Does adding <some-full-path>/boost_iostreams-mgw41-d-1_34_1.a to the link command line work?
3.we know we can build the boost in mingw without MSYS by using bjam,yet the get start does not give such information. A note to Cygwin and MinGW users If you plan to use your tools from the Windows command prompt, you're in the right place. If you plan to build from the Cygwin bash shell, you're actually running on a POSIX platform and should follow the instructions for getting started on Unix variants. Other command shells, such as MinGW's MSYS, are not supported—they may or may not work.
Sorry, do you think there's something to be fixed, or not? - Volodya