RE: [Boost-users] Re: building and installing boost

From: Delfin Rojas (drojas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-26 12:37:27

I have never tried to build bjam and run it so I am not sure what may be
happening in your case. You can download pre-built bjam for Win32 from
SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=72941
> &package_id=72941).

 

On the other hand, putting bjam.exe on C:\Windows\system32 does not seem
like a good idea to me. Put bjam.exe where boost is (C:\temp\boost_1_32_0
for you).

 

Before running bjam you need to run vsvars32.bat which comes with Visual C++
7 installation. You will find it under Common7/Tools under your "Visual
Studio .NET 2003" folder. For example, for me it is at (C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\ vsvars32.bat). This
bat file sets the environment variables necessary to use the Visual C++
compiler from the command line which is what bjam will try to do. 

 

Then go to your C:\temp\boot_1_32_0 and run "bjam.exe "-sTOOLS=vc-7_1"
install"

 

Hope this helps,

 

-delfin

 

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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:39 AM
To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Re: building and installing boost

 

I copied the boost installation zip file for windows  the boost_1_32 zip
file to c:\temp.

 

The zip file was then expanded to c:\temp\boost_1_32_0.

 

If one follows the instructions for building bjam from
c:\temp\boost_1_32\tools\build\jam_src\ 

a bjam.exe gets created in c:\temp\boost_1_32_0\tools\build\jam_src\
bin.ntx86.

 

I dont have any boost set up in the environment path.

 

I have copied the bjam.exe to c:\windows\system32.

 

I then type the boost install command below as per boost building
instructions for visual c++ 7 as per below.

 

C:\temp\boost_1_32_0>bjam "-sTOOLS=vc-7_1"  install

 

Regards

 

Theo