Building the Boost libraries on Windows
Boost jam
This utility is used to compile the Boost libraries.
Get the source tarball from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost-jam/3.1.17/boost-jam-3.1.17.tgz; once you have it, it's a simple matter of running the build script (which will automatically detect MinGW) and installing the resulting executable:
$ sh ./build.sh $ cp bin.ntx86/bjam.exe /mingw/bin $ which bjam /mingw/bjam.exe $ bjam -v Boost.Jam Version 3.1.17. OS=NT. Copyright 1993-2002 Christopher Seiwald and Perforce Software, Inc. Copyright 2001 David Turner. Copyright 2001-2004 David Abrahams. Copyright 2002-2008 Rene Rivera. Copyright 2003-2008 Vladimir Prus.
Main libraries
Download the main Boost libraries from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost and extract them somewhere convenient.
Let's see what we've got:
$ bjam --show-libraries The following libraries require building: - date_time - filesystem - graph - graph_parallel - iostreams - math - mpi - program_options - python - regex - serialization - signals - system - test - thread - wave
Jam will detect that you're running Windows and (rather then check what's available) assume that you want to use the MSVC toolchain; you have to force it to use gcc instead. You should also use a separate build directory; it will make it easier to clean up if you make a mistake and need to start over.
In principle, you could use the following command to build Boost:
$ bjam toolset=gcc --prefix=/opt/boost --build-dir=obj --layout=system stage
If you do, though, you will get warnings about several components due to missing compiler features (e.g. wchar
for Boost.Serialization) and / or third-party components (e.g. Python for Boost.Python).
$ bjam toolset=gcc variant=release link=shared threading=multi \ --prefix=/c/met.no --build-dir=obj --layout=tagged \ --without-graph --without-graph_parallel --without-mpi \ --without-python --without-serialization \ stage
To install the result, run the exact same command, but with install
instead of stage
:
$ bjam toolset=gcc variant=release link=shared threading=multi \ --prefix=/c/met.no --build-dir=obj --layout=tagged \ --without-graph --without-graph_parallel --without-mpi \ --without-python --without-serialization \ install $ cp LICENSE_1_0.txt /c/met.no/copyright/boost.txt
XXX can't get static linking to work