Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksODT exportBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== Building the Boost libraries on Windows ====== ===== Boost jam ===== This utility is used to [[boost|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 [[http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/libs/serialization/doc/index.html|Boost.Serialization]]) and / or third-party components (e.g. Python for [[http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/libs/python/doc/index.html|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 diana/windows/building/boost.txt Last modified: 2022-05-31 09:29:31(external edit)