On 08.03.2013 05:18, James Amundson wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to do a bjam build of boost packages including iostreams. I have zlib installed under /unusual/location

./bjam include=/unusual/location/include install

fails because it cannot find -lz. Obviously, I need to specify that libz is in /unusual/location/lib, but I don't see how to do that.

I realize this seems obvious. Which part of the documentation am I missing?

Here is a part of my (Windows) bat file I use to build Boost inside our company. @REM ZLIB files set NO_ZLIB=0 set ZLIB_INCLUDE=H:\zlib-1.2.7\ set ZLIB_SOURCE=H:\zlib-1.2.7\ @REM explicitly enable compression set NO_COMPRESSION=0 @REM the actual call to boost build b2 -j 8 --toolset=msvc-10.0 address-model=32 --build-type=complete stage I'm using environment variables to define the unusual path, which works fine on Windows and I guess as well on any other OS, but I haven't tested that. Norbert

On 08.03.2013 05:18, James Amundson wrote:

I need to specify that libz is in /unusual/location/lib, but I don't see how to do that.

Not sure about other platforms, but on Windows I use b2 --with-iostreams -sZLIB_SOURCE=c:\zlibpath\ I also add -sBZIP2_SOURCE=c:\bzip2path\ since I want bzip2 support. - Asbjørn