Re: [boost] Building BJam and Boost in Sun's Virtual Box

Subject: Re: [boost] Building BJam and Boost in Sun's Virtual Box
From: Monte Jones (mj_jones_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-28 18:30:55

Thank you for the assistance.  I knew the error was mine, just wasn't sure
which one I made.  I followed your advice; it is now installed and my
associated software runs fine.

Monte

-----Original Message-----
From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]]
On Behalf Of Beman Dawes
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:24 AM
To: boost_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [boost] Building BJam and Boost in Sun's Virtual Box

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Vladimir Prus<vladimir_at_[hidden]>
wrote:
> Monte Jones wrote:
>> I need to be able to use Boost in a virtual environment, specifically,
Sun's
>> Virtual Box.  I'm further limited in the company I am working for has not
>> approved any Boost upgrades since 1.34 for use.  I thought the best way
to
>> approach this would be to build Boost Jam and then Boost within  the
virtual
>> box.  Below is what I've done so far.
>>
>>
>>
>> Downloaded platform independent zip files for Boost Jam 3.14.1 and Boost
>> 1.34.0 and saved into directory I called Boost
>
> Please use tar.gz/tar.bz2 files. zip files have dos line endings, and Unix
shell
> is very particular about that.

I regularly run Boost builds and regression tests in a VirtualBox
Linux guest on a Windows host. It is pretty much problem free.

But as Volodya points out, if it is a Linux or Unix guest, you need to
treat it as such regardless of the host O/S. Likewise, if it is a
Windows guest, treat it as Windows even if the host happens to be
Linux or Unix.

--Beman
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