Try removing the quotes from the line, I found that for whatever
reason things appeared to work better without them. Oh and instead of –sTOOLS=msvc
switch it to your version of VC, eg. Vc-8_0 for 8.0 (2k5).
-Garrett McGrath
Software Engineer
CSBMB Princeton University
Green Hall
1-(609)-258-0285
From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org
[mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Beauregard
Dommit
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:29 PM
To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
Subject: [Boost-users] Help installing (building) boost - Windows2K w/
MSVC++
I'm trying to install boost on Windows 2000 running Visual
C++, and having lots of problems. It's W2K w/ SP4, and SP6 for Visual
Studio.
First, I take it there is no precompiled "install" package, even for
Windows?
First problem - I unpack boost and put bjam in the boost directory. I run
it from a command prompt w/ something like (I've tried a few variations):
bjam "-sTOOLS=msvc" "--prefix=C:\program files\boost"
"--PYTHON-ROOT=C:\Program Files\Python25"
"--with-python-version=2.5"
"--builddir=G:\temp\buildboost" install >
install_log.txt
(Sorry for whatever the mailer might be doing to the text - the above is one
line.) I also tried the command line with lower case for the Python stuff
- the above was my last desperate attempt.
In my output file I see:
skipping Boost.Python library build
due to missing or incorrect configuration
couldn't find Python.h in
"c:/Python25/include"
You can configure the location of
your python installation by setting:
PYTHON_VERSION - The 2-part python
Major.Minor version number (e.g.
"2.2", NOT "2.2.1") - currently "2.5"
etc................
I guess I'm doing something stupid here, but what? Jam is apparently
finding the prefix and builddir OK - it does build boost, or at least part of
it, and installs a bunch of libraries and includes in the right place. I
do have Python installed and working in C:\Program Files\Python25, and Python.h
is there.
Second problem - after the above, I get about 2000 lines of errors, or mostly
errors. A lot of them are duplicates, but still that doesn't seem
good. The first ones are about the Program Options package. That
was the part of Boost I was going to try using first, so I'd like to get that
fixed. Here are the error msgs:
vc-C++
G:\temp\buildboost\bin\boost\libs\program_options\build\libboost_program_options.lib\msvc\debug\runtime-link-static\cmdline.obj
cmdline.cpp
G:\Temp\newboost\boost_1_33_1\boost/program_options/options_description.hpp(156)
: error C2258: illegal pure syntax, must be '= 0'
G:\Temp\newboost\boost_1_33_1\boost/program_options/options_description.hpp(156)
: error C2252: 'm_default_line_length' : pure specifier can only bespecified
for functions
G:\Temp\newboost\boost_1_33_1\boost/program_options/options_description.hpp(159)
: error C2065: 'm_default_line_length' : undeclared identifier
Then a bunch of errors about the Bind package, etc, etc, etc. If
someone can help me fix the above problems I'll be very
grateful.
Gard