[boost] Re: linker problems, mingw, win2k

From: Jacek Pakulski (jacekp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-18 12:59:54

Hi;

I think I figured everything out, thank You to anyone who actually 
looked at my question. Below are my findings, (for
anyone new to boost)

 > I compiled the Boost library using bjam with following options:
 > bjam "-sMINGW_ROOT_DIRECTORY=C:\Dev-Cpp\bin" "-sTOOLS=mingw"
 > "-sBUILD=release <runtime-link>static <threading>single" install

This is correct, as long as You're creating a release version of Your 
program and only need static linking with no
multithreading.

 > My cmd. to make unit_test_framework1.cpp is:
 > g++ -I"C:\Boost\include\boost-1_32" -L"C:\Boost\lib"
 > C:\Boost\lib\libboost_unit_test_framework-mgw-s-1_32.lib -o
 > boost_test.exe boost_test.o

This was rather wrong, below is a small make file which works. One thing 
to note is that the -l switch does not work on
windows for specific library files. Instead the entire path to the 
library must be specified...

# Vars
CXX = g++.exe
CC = gcc.exe
EXE = test.exe
SRC = test.cpp
OBJ = test.o

# Base dirs
BOOST_BASE_DIR = C:/Boost
STD_BASE_DIR = C:/Dev-Cpp

# Include files
INC = -I$(BOOST_BASE_DIR)/include/boost-1_32

# Lib dir and files
LIB = -L$(BOOST_BASE_DIR)/lib -L$(STD_BASE_DIR)/lib
LIB_FILES = $(BOOST_BASE_DIR)/lib/libboost_unit_test_framework-mgw-s.lib

# Link the exe
$(EXE) : $(OBJ)
 $(CXX) $(OBJ) -o $(EXE) $(LIB) $(LIB_FILES)

# Create objects
$(OBJ) : $(SRC)
 $(CXX) -c $(SRC) -o $(OBJ) $(INC)

# Cleanup
.PHONY: clean
clean:
 rm -f $(OBJ) $(EXE)

Once again thank You for Your time
Jacek