Re: [Boost-users] Building Boost 1.40

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building Boost 1.40
From: Andrew Maclean (andrew.amaclean_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-10 20:59:59

I use CMake and found I had to reconfigure and after tis the correct
libraries were linked in with no problems. If you run make it may look
for the older libraries first.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Geoff Hilton
<geoff.hilton_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Dmitry V. Krivenok wrote:
>>
>> Andrew Maclean wrote:
>>>
>>> I built Boost 1.40 on Linux and installed it Ok.
>>> However are the libraries singlethreaded or multithreaded?
>>> eg. the library names are like this:
>>> libboost_python.so
>>> libboost_python.so.1.40.0
>>>
>>> The older versions had -mt- in their name.
>>> eg.
>>> libboost_python-gcc43-mt.so
>>> etc.
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> You can use --layout parameter to change libraries naming convention.
>> Use the following command to see possible options:
>>
>> $ bjam --help | grep -A25 layout
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Andrew
>
> Indeed, I noticed this same issue as Andrew when I built it, at first I
> thought this would be fine, but when I tried to compile, boost was still
> trying to link against the no-longer-existing -mt- versions. I ended up
> using --layout to use the old naming convention, but how might I go about
> ensuring that it compiles correctly?
>
> I'm using Boost.Build for project management, here's my configuration:
>
> geoff_at_venus:~$ cat /etc/site-config.jam
> # Copyright 2002, 2003 Vladimir Prus
> # Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
> # (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or
> http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
> project site-config ;
> using gcc ;
> using python : 2.6 : /usr ;
> import os ;
> local BOOST_ROOT = [ os.environ BOOST_ROOT ] ;
> using boost : 1.40 : <include>$(BOOST_ROOT) <library>/usr/local/lib ;
> lib libxslt
>  : #no sources
>  : <file>/usr/lib/libxslt.so.1
>  ;
> lib libxml2
>  : libxslt
>  : <name>xml2
>   <search>/usr/lib
>  :
>  : <include>/usr/include/libxml2
>  ;
>
> geoff_at_venus:~$ cat user-config.jam (possibly unnecessary, but posting for
> the sake of being complete).
>
> project user-config ;
> import os ;
> local HOME = [ os.environ HOME ] ;
> lib opencl
>  : #no sources
>  : <name>OpenCL
>   <search>$(HOME)/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/OpenCL/common/lib/Linux64
>  :
>  : <include>$(HOME)/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/OpenCL/common/inc/
>  ;
>
> geoff_at_venus:~/boostTest$ cat Jamroot.jam
> import boost ;
> boost.use-project ;
> exe boostTest :
>  [ glob *.cpp ]
>  : <define>BOOST_LIB_DIAGNOSTIC=1
>   <library>/site-config//libxml2
>   <library>/boost//filesystem
>   <library>/boost//system
>   <library>/boost//program_options
>   <threading>multi
>  ;
>
> How might I make it compile correctly?
>
> Unrelatedly, how might I improve my current jam files in any way?
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff
>
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