Re: [boost] Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-05 12:10:45

Peter Dimov wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> A binary package of the .zip variety would be both good enough and 
> preferable, as it wouldn't involve running untrusted executables.

Well, running and MSI doesn't involve untrusted executables either :)

.zip package with prebuilt libs will be good enough. It's a good 
compromise between ease of installation and ease of package creation.

> That aside, FWIW I've found bjam relatively painless to use (once it's 
> present). I didn't even need to specify an -sTOOLS option or run 
> vcvars32.bat IIRC. 

The documentation is misleading and outdated. BBv1 Getting Started tells 
you to do complex things which aren't already necessary for a long time.

> For the scenario where one already has the headers up 
> and running but doesn't want to "bjam install" the whole package, the 
> main obstacle is figuring out which -sBUILD combination generates 
> "library-sgd-mt-whatever" when autolinking kicks in.
> 
> Or can bjam figure these out automatically from the target name of 
> "library-sgd-mt-whatever.lib"? It didn't occur to me to try it. ;-)

Good idea.

Andrey